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 photography, drawing, embroidery, glass, digital media 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

2024 Gifts of the Mind, Kilcock Art Gallery

2024 Leinster Printmaking Studio: 25 Years, Naas Library

2023 Project Babel, Galleria Ratamo, Jyväskylä, Finland

2023 Leinster Printmaking Studio: 25 Years, Kilcock Art Gallery

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