Oonagh O’Toole is visual artist living in Dublin. She was born and lives in Dublin city and studied Visual Communications at the National College of Art and Design and worked as a designer and illustrator before focusing on painting and art education. She teaches art in aSecondary school in Dublin.
Oonagh paints the colours, tones and shapes around her, noticing the beauty and drama in the details of ordinary scenes.
Through still lifes, portraiture and cityscapes she explores the colours and light of the everyday, observing objects, buildings and people and the spaces between them.
Her work is shown by Kilbaha Gallery, Loop Head Co Clare.
Recent exhibitions include:
- ‘RHA annual 195th Exhibition 2025
- ArtNetdlr curated exhibition ‘Looking out (Walters, Dun Laoghaire) April-June 2025
- Kilkenny portrait exhibition curated by An Chead Tine, Kilkenny April 2025
- Bloodroot’curated by Hamilton Gallery. The Hague, Netherlands Feb 2025
- Ranelagh Arts Christmas show, December 2024 An Chead Tine Annual exhibition, Kilkenny, curated by Mary Doyle Burke Oct-Nov 2024
- Municipal Gallery, Lexicon Dunlaoghaire: Crosscurrents collaborative exhibition curated by artist Claire Halpin
- Dublin Painting and Sketching club 2024
- Signal arts open exhibition August 2024
- ArtNetdlr open submission exhibition ‘Trees’’ (Walters, Dun Laoghaire) Dec 2023- March 2024
- Signal art centre group exhibition April 2023
- Rha annual exhibition 2023
- Rha annual exhibition 2022
- Dublin Painting and Sketching club 2022
- Westival Arts Festival 2022 (McGings show)
- ArtNetdlr open submission exhibition ‘Pause’ (Walters, Dun Laoghaire) selected by artist Rachel Joynt, Oct-Dec 2022
- ArtNetdlr open submission exhibition ‘Convergence’ (Walters, Dun Laoghaire) selected by artist Jennifer Cunningham, Oct -Dec 2022
- Dublin Painting and sketching club 2021
- Green acres Open exhibition, Wexford town 2020
She is a member of Artnetdlr, Dublin Painting and Sketching Club, Signal Arts and Visual Arts Ireland
Public collection
She has a painting in the Dunlaoghaire Rathdown County Council collection.