BIOGRAPHY

Oonagh Latchford is a painter living and working in Wexford. Her studio practice explores painterly concerns with colour, light, paint and composition, and is often is a commentary on the hidden social isolation often experienced within contemporary society. Working primarily in oil paint, her compositions are disrupted by elements of abstraction, alluding to themes of memory and loss.

Solo exhibitions include SPF 50, Creative Hub, Wexford (2022) Scéilini in Paint, Anita Chan Lai-Ling Gallery, Fringe Club, Hong Kong. (2018) risk festival Asia.

She has exhibited her work in many group shows, including The Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, London, (2022) Wex-Art (Office for art) curated by Anya von Gosseln. (2022) Wide Open Space, County Hall, Wexford, curated by Eamoan Maxwell (2022) and Painting is dead- WHO SAYS? group show Kamera 8, Wexford.

Latchford was selected for Wexford Arts Centre’s MAKE/curate programme (2022) and was a recipient of the Artlinks Visual Arts Bursary (2018) and of County Wexford Arts Department’s Tyrone Guthrie Award (2014). She has been awarded primary school residencies under the auspices of the Living Arts Project (2014-2018). She is on the current panel of artists within County Wexford Arts Department Arts Ability programme.

Her paintings are held in collections in Ireland, Hong Kong and the USA.