Two women having a conversation in an art gallery. There are three colorful paintings of people at the beach hanging on the white wall behind them.

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

  • 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

  • Current Artist in residence Westgate Visual Art Studios, Wexford (Joint initiative by Wexford Arts Centre/ County Wexford Arts Department).

  • 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.