Lucienne O’Mara
To get in touch please email lucienne.omara@hotmail.com
Instagram: @lucienneomara
Statement
Lucienne O’Mara’s paintings unlock the linear structure of the grid. The freehand geometry attempts to discipline and battle against the emotion and movement brought by the use of colour, and the physicality of the brushwork. The limitless potential of this single compositional method allows Lucienne to explore the boundaries of colour, rhythm, and space. Lucienne’s engagement with the repetition of squares within squares is seeking to break down visual order and imbue it with a kind of chaos and poetry more akin to our experience of life.
Lucienne was born in South London in 1989 where she still lives and works. She received a BA and MA from City & Guilds of London Art School and is currently in the final year of the Turps Banana Studio Programme.
Her work is featured in collections such as Simmons and Simmons, John Jones, and the Currell Collection. She has been the recipient of the Painter Stainer’s Prize, the Tony Carter Award, and a finalist of the Ingram Prize.
Education
Current – Turps Banana Studio Programme (2022-2024)
MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School (2017-2019)
Turps Banana Studio Programme (2012 – 2013)
City & Guilds of London Art School (2008 – 2011)
BA Hons Fine Art Painting: First Class Degree
Camberwell College of Art & Design (2007 – 2008)
Foundation Diploma
Exhibitions
2023
You Can’t Always Get What You Want, Haricot Gallery
Room Share 4, Safehouse 1
Year One OHSH Projects
You’d Notice If It Wasn’t There, OHSH Projects
Annihilation, OHSH Projects
Felt, Stubbs Studio
Stretch, Somers Gallery
2022
Selects Vol. 2, London Paint Club
I Felt That, The Tub
Works on paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage
2021
Reframing Rebuilding, Kaleidoscope Gallery
2020
This Is The House We Built, Walthamstow
2019
What Relief, Gallery 98
Creekside Open selected by Sacha Craddock
Creekside Open selected by Brian Griffith
2018
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2017
Steal The Show, Bentinck Street, Glasgow
2016
Anthology, Charlie Smith London
Europa, Transition Gallery
Visions of Abstraction, Gallery Elena Shchukina
Flesh in Focus, Brocket Gallery
2015
Art Car Boot Fair
Greater Depths: Redefining Watercolour, Brocket Gallery
Vault Festival
2014
Wells Art Contemporary
Best of Bow Arts, selected by Mark Wallinger
Art Car Boot Fair, London, Liverpool, Folkestone
Tete a Tete, Cannes
Preamble, The Juncture, Unit 3
First Come, First Served, Lion and Lamb
2013
Freeze 13, The Mayor’s Parlour
Turps Banana Final Show, Vigo Gallery
Turps Banana Studio Exhibition, V22 Exhibition Space
Artist of the Day, Flowers Gallery
Art Car boot fair, Brick Lane
Turps Banana Interim Show, Mayor’s Parlour
First Come, First Served, Lion and Lamb
2012
House Rules, Simmons & Simmons
Collections
The Currell Collection
Simmons & Simmons Collection
John Jones
Awards
The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers: 2011
The Tony Carter Award: 2019
Ingram Prize finalist:2023