Eleanor McCaughey

Eleanor McCaughey’s practice explores thematic threads surrounding the body, identity and place, using symbols and metaphors that best express personal narratives. Watery hybrids, drowning dames, flailing females, peace offerings, magnetic moons, brain fog on the horizons and empathic monsters emerge in the work.

WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR DOOR TO A MOUNTAIN, 2025
oil, crayon, gouache, on cotton
3.7m x 3.7m

Survey

  • SHADOWS HOLD THEIR BREATH, 2022

    oil gouache and glitter on Fabriano
    44 x 32 cm (framed)

  • SMOOTHING OUT THE EDGES OF MOONS, SLOWED BY FOG, 2025

    oil and gouache on canvas
    100 x 120 cm

  • HAULING HOMES, 2025

    oil and gouache on paper canvas
    40 x 30 cm

  • SHAKING THE SALT ON SHROVE, 2025

    oil and gouache on paper canvas
    40 x 30 cm

Biography

Courtesy of the artist and Cabinet, London

Born in Dublin, Ireland. Eleanor McCaughey studied at TU, Dublin. Selected exhibitions include A sea change into something rich and strange, 2024 , RHA, Whispers of rhythm balance on my hands, Draíocht, 2024, Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, The Complex,2023, Forget your cares, sow your wild oats, sin is a wonderful disease, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, 2023,  Bones in the attic, Hugh Lane Gallery,2022, Woman in the machine, Visual Carlow, 2021, Super Market Art Fair, Stockholm, 2021, What remains of this place?, online exhibition, 2020, Vignettes, Richard Heller Gallery, LA USA, 2019 and Sytonic State, Tulca, Galway, 2018