Nuala O' Dea is an artist and teacher. 

She studied in DIT and NCAD and holds diplomas in Art & Design, Art & Design Teaching, and a Masters in Digital Media Technologies. She maintains her practice from her Maynooth-based studio. Her work is informed by her experience of everyday life and she explores themes around individual, family, relationship, boundary and locality. 

She works in a variety of media, including drawing, embroidery, glass, sculpture and printmaking. 

She aims to explore the universal through the specific, inviting the viewer to make connections to their own experience.

Exhibitions
2025 Bloodroot, Pulchri Studio, The Hague and The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo

2024 Gifts of the Mind, Kilcock Art Gallery 

2024 'Echos' Leinster Printmaking Studio: 25 Years, Naas Library 

2024 Project Babel, Constellation Studios, Nebraska and Galleri Valdal, Copenhagen

2023 Project Babel, Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland

2023 'Echos' Leinster Printmaking Studio: 25 Years, Kilcock Art Gallery and Esker Arts

2022 'Oidhreacht - Heritage', Lexicon Dun Laoighre

2020 'Oidhreacht - Heritage', Kilcock Art Gallery 

2019 'Be That as it May', Leixlip Library Gallery 

2018 'Be That as it May', McAuley Place, Naas 

2017 'Be That as it May', Maynooth University Library 

2017 'Originate', Straffan Design Centre 

2014 Royal Ulster Academy, Annual Exhibition 

2014 Vanishing Art, Sculpture Exhibition, Carton House 

2014 'Little Things' Solo Show, Celbridge Gallery 

2012 Royal Hibernian Academy, Annual Exhibition