Margo McNulty is a Fine Art graduate and holds an MFA from NCAD in Dublin. Her work is influenced by traditions inherent in Irish culture and deals with hidden history, memory and place. The work concerns itself with episodes of chance, the intersection of personal and public histories and how these histories and meanings can be embedded in material objects. The work concerns itself with episodes of chance, the intersection of personal and public histories, and how these histories and meanings can be embedded in material objects.
She was awarded the Jackie Clarke Residency in Ballina in 2021 and received the Markiewicz Award in 2022. She completed her research and residency and is holding an exhibition Voices with Kilmainham Gaol Museum in 2023/2024. During the summer of 2023, McNulty undertook a residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Voices, Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin
2021 - Keepsakes, Jackie Clarke Collection, Ballina, Co. Mayo
2020 - Duality, Roscommon Arts Centre, Roscommon
2018 - Archive, Luan Gallery, Co. Westmeath
2017 - Archive, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
2009 - Imprint, Roscommon, Arts Centre, Roscommon
2006 - Re-Trace, Museum of Country Life Castlebar, Co Mayo
2004 - Revision, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
Residencies
2024 - Ballinglen Art Foundation, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
2023 - Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium
2022 / 23 - Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Decade of Centenaries Project Voices
2021 - Jackie Clarke Collection, Ballina, Co Mayo , six month residency, Decade of Centenaries Project
2010-2019 - Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig
2015 - Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf-Fronberg, Bavaria, Germany
2009 - Trade Residency Roscommon/Letrim
2008 - Gorlice, Poland
2005 - Custom House Studios, Westport Co. Mayo.
2003 - Claremorris Open Exhibition, Co Mayo
2002 - System Label, Art@work, Roscommon
2002 - Westmeath Artist in Residence
2001 - Roscommon Herald-Art@work, Roscommon
2001 - The Museum of Country Life, Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
Collections
Office of Public Works
Folklore Section in UCD
National Gallery of Ireland
Museum of Country Life
Mayo, Roscommon and Westmeath Co. Councils
Publications
Mantles
Collaboration with Shauna Gilligan, Creative Ireland Project supported by Roscommon Arts Centre, 2021
Keepsakes
Published by Redfoxpress, 2021
Duality
Collaboration with Shauna Gilligan
Published by Redfoxpress, 2020
Archive
Published by Redfoxpress, 2019
Voices
Published by Redfox Press, 2023
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair participated in 2022 and 2023
Group Exhibitions
2023 - Symbols of Subject, Luan Gallery Athlone
2023 - Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum Biennial (Peter Maxwell Award Winner), Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
2023 - Polyphonic Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Art Gallery, DublinFavonius Achill Artists Group Dooagh, Achill Co. Mayo
2023 - Cairde, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2023 - Ancestral Houses, Beijing, China
2022 -A Caring Matter, Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Art Gallery, Dublin
2022 -Expanded, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2020 - Diamond Point, Graphic Studio Dublin
2020 - 60 years Graphic Studio Hyde Gallery, Sligo
2019 - Impressions, GMIT Galway (prize winner)
2019 - Cairde, Model Arts Centre Sligo
2018 - Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
2018 - Grafika Irlande, Centrum Gallery, Krakov, Poland
2017 - Interwoven Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery Dublin
2017 - Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast
2017 - Impressions, GMIT Galway
2016 - Kathleen Lynn; Insider on the Outside, Mayo
2015 - Shifting Perspectives, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
2015 - Impressions of WB Yeats, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2014 - Gravity, Aba Teangai Dooagh Achill, Co. Mayo
2014 - A Natural Selection, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg Sweden
2014 - Space and Place The Lab, Foley St. Dublin
2013 - Space and Place Belmullet Arts Centre, Belmullet, Co. Mayo
2012 - Impressions, Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2012 - Bite Mall Galleries, London
2012 - Reframe, Roscommon Arts Centre, Roscommon
2012 - Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co Mayo
2012 - Strange Days, Ballina Arts Centre
2011 - Bite Mall Galleries, London
2011 - Aurelia, Aba Teangai Dooagh Achill, Co. Mayo
2011 - Inside Out, Graphic Studio, Dublin
2011 - Ciall, An Gailearai Aislann, Derrybeg Donegal
2010 - Outside /Inside, Leitrim Sculpture Centre
2009 - Sequence part of the TRADE project Carrick on Shannon
2009 - Aquila, Rhenania, Cologne, Germany
2009 - l'Île d'Hiver/The Winter Island, Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France