Oonagh in conversation with Art Historian and Curator Catherine Marshall in front of a live studio audience in 2022. They were discussing Oonagh’s work in her solo show SPF50. You can see an article Catherine wrote for Visual Artists Newsletter in response to the show here
My piece (right) Memories open bare, of a beach no longer there. Oil on Canvas, 170cm x 100cm, 2024. Seen in situ in GOMA’s 8th Annual Winter Exhibition, 2025. Photo courtesy of GOMA Gallery Waterford
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ItExhibitions
2026
GOMA’s 8th Annual Winter Exhibition
Pigyard Gallery Winter show
2025
Exhibition of shortlisted works for the John Richardson French Residency Award, Hambly & Hambly
2024
Panecea, Waterford Gallery of Art, Pop up 7 person show
2023
Mermaid 21. Open submission. Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow
Summer of Love. Open submission show, Courthouse Gallery, Clare
2022
SPF-50, Solo show, creative hub, Wexford – included an ‘in conversation with’ between Oonagh Latchford and art historian/ curator Catherine Marshall, supported by Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council’s MAKEcurate programme
Wex-Art group show, curated by Anya von Gosseln
Wide Open Space (Group show), County Hall, Wexford, curated by Eamonn Maxwell.
Pigyard Gallery, group show.
2021
Pluid project, charity group show, Farmleigh House
2020
The Annual 44, ArtForm Dunmore East (online)
Nua Collective inaugural exhibition (online)
2019
Lifelines, D’Lush, Wexford Arts Centre, (Solo show)
Creative Hub, Wexford. (Two person show with the support of Wexford Arts Centre & the arts Department of Wexford County Council.)
Enniscorthy Art Trail (Invited artist)
2108
Sceilini in Paint Solo Show, Anita Chan Lai-Ling Gallery, Fringe Club, Hong Kong, (With the support of Culture Ireland)
PaintingIs dead- Who Says? Kamera 8, Wexford (Group show curated by Anya Van Gosseln)
Solo Show, Hook Lighthouse
2017
Summer show Newtownbarry House, Bunclody, Wexford, Invited Artist
Living Arts, Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford
2016
In the long Grass, solo show, The Annexe, Wexford Arts Centre
Group show, Newtownbarry House, Bunclody. Curated by Anya von Gosseln.
Chromaticity, group show, Presentation Centre, Enniscorthy, Wexford.
2015
Living Arts, Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford.
Wish you were here. Peoples Resource centre, Wexford.
Art panther opening show, Art Panther, Wexford.
2014
Greenacres Summer Show, Greenacres, Selskar, Wexford.
Light Poiesis, Solo Show, Upstairs Gallery, Kilkenny.
2013
Pop Up Solo Show Fusion, Wexford to coincide with the Wexford Festival Opera
Summer Show, Sweet Shop Gallery, Rosslare, Wexford.
The Language of Light, Solo show, The Presentation Centre, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford Bringing Art into the Community, Group show, Fusion Cafe, Wexford
I want to be…… Exhibition resulting from a project under the auspices of County Wexford Arts Department Artist in the Community Scheme.
Lions Club Annual Show, Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford.
2012
Night and Day, Solo Show, d’Lush Cafe, Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford.
Greenacres Open Submission Show, Greenacres, Wexford
Lions Club Annual Show, Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford
2011
The Engine Room, Group show, Studio Nine, Wexford.
Art Trail ,Wicklow
My Favourite Things ,Wexford Arts Centre.
WOSP Charity Art Exhibition, Teachers Club, Parnell Sq West, Dublin 1.
2010
Art in the Attic, Group show in the Bride Street Festival Gallery, Wexford.
Here Comes Spring, Wexford Arts Centre
Artists Unite in aid of Gosia, Centre for creative Practice, Dublin
Art in the Open, Greenacres, Wexford
2009
Degree Show, Wexford School of Art & Design, Wexford 2009
Art in the Open 2009, Whites Hotel, Wexford.
Eigse 2009, IT Carlow.
Celebrating the Arts, Wexford Arts Centre.
Stone Soup, Westgate Heritage Centre, Wexford
2008
Wexford Plein Air Festival of Painting, Whites Hotel, Wexford
Lirico 2008, Wexford Arts Centre
Awards:
2021– Arts council Agility award
2018 – Artlinks Bursary
2014 – Tyrone Guthrie Award 2014 via Wexford County Council.
2014 – Artlinks Clinic Mentoring via Artlinks Mentoring Programme.
2013 – Artlinks Clinic Mentoring via Artlinks Mentoring Programme
2009 – Merit Award, Celebrating the Arts, Wexford Arts Centre.
2008 – F.X. Butler Award, ‘Lirico 2008’ Wexford Arts Centre, May 2008
Collections:
Latchford’s work is in both public and private collections in Ireland, The UK, Europe, USA and Hong Kong, including Wexford County Council, Wexford Vocational College, The Ashdown Hotel
Publications:
New Realities / Imagined Landscapes, An essay looking at the work of Irish Artist Elizabeth Magill, Paper Visual Art Journal, May 2010 http://papervisualart.com/?p=2429
My BA (hons) degree show work was featured in issue one of StudentZine, an online publication for ………..contemporary art. http://www.mag.studentszine.com/Issue-1.htmlem description
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Current Artist in residence Westgate Visual Art Studios, Wexford (Joint initiative by Wexford Arts Centre/ County Wexford Arts Department).
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Item descrShe was shortlisted for the John Richardson French Residency Award 2025. She was recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award 2021, Artlinks bursary 2018 and County Wexford Arts Department’s Tyrone Guthrie award 2014. She has been awarded primary school residencies under the auspices of the Living Arts Project in 2014, 2106, 2017 and in 2018. (Other awards can be seen in the artist CV/Exhibition listing section) In addition to her studio practice, she works as a lead facilitator within County Wexford Arts Department Arts Ability programme.