Linda Quinlan

Linda Quinlan is an Irish artist living in Dublin. Her practice weaves a kind of visual alchemy, choreographing a playful set of relations between image, objects and sound. In her work she engages in practices that mean to establish a relation with the mineral, vegetal and animal world. Her recent work is grounded in the activity of painting, developing imagery that aims to capture both an ecological and civic spirit and question ideas of love, loss, survival and the natural world.

Linda Quinlan
Siren’s whisper, 2025
watercolour and ink on paper
23 x 31cm

Survey

  • Splendid gateway, 2025

    watercolour on paper
    23 x 31cm

  • you & me, 2026

    watercolour on paper
    23 x 31cm

  • Acoustic Real Estate, 2012

    HD Video, colour, sound, 7 min loop

    Commissioned for Magic Love Trade Objects an exhibition curated by Jan Verwoert at Art Geneve.

    ‘And a cosmos of fluid transitions opens up between the object and spirit world. Everything here is what it is and isn't what it is. And it rejoices in being a go-between, with ever changing identities.’ –Jan Verwoert

  • Ananas, 2011

    HD-video, colour, sound, 5 min loop

    Installation view with yellow silicone spill at Oakville Galleries, Toronto, 2015.

    Exhibited at Oakville Galleries, Toronto (2015), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2014), Alternative Gallery Loop, Seoul (2013), Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (2011) and at the Piet Zwart Graduation Show, (2011).

Biography

Linda Quinlan is a graduate of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin and the Crawford College, Cork. She has exhibited widely both in Ireland and internationally and has received numerous awards. She has exhibited at Oakville Galleries, Toronto; Bloomberg Space, London; CRAC Alsace, Altkirch; Smart Project Space, Amsterdam; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; the Hugh Lane Gallery; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the Crawford Gallery, Cork, Berlin Opticians Gallery, Dublin and the Glucksman Gallery, Cork. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, Dublin City Council and the Dutch Ministry. She was awarded the AIB Prize and her work is held in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council of Ireland.