Owen de Forge is an emerging visual artist living and working in Dublin. His practice combines painting with sculpture, documentary photography, and drawing to create works that meditate on themes of community, perception, ecology, and the subconscious.
Recent exhibitions include 'Will we go look for a mole hole?' (The Dean Art Studios, 2023), The Hennessy Craig Award Exhibition (RHA, 2022), and ‘You breathe differently down here’ (Draíocht, 2022). Awards include The Hennessy Craig Award (Shortlisted, 2022), The Dean Art Studios Annual Residency (2022), and the Visual Arts Bursary (2022) from the Arts Council of Ireland. His work is held in the OPW Irish State Art Collection, NI Civil Service Art Collection, Trinity College Dublin’s Art Collections, and private collections in Ireland, North America, and Australia.