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