Manon West is an artist and illustrator from Connemara, Ireland. She works in multiple mediums, with a focus on the figurative. Her work is often a response to her enviroment, through different perspectives and narratives. She graduated from ATU (Atlantic Technological University, Ireland) with a BA in Contemporary Art in 2022.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Dublin Sketching and Painting club 144th Annual Non-Members Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland.
2022 ‘Entangled’ (Opened by John Behan) – Clifden Arts Week 2022, Ireland.
2022 ‘An Obsession with Stone and Landscape’ Rosslare Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2023 Royal Pastel Society Open Call Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2023 University of Notre Dame's Global Centre Art Exhibition, Kylemore Abbey.
2023 'Lustre of Form' - All Saints Heritage Centre, Clonbur.
2023 The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art First Biennial Exhibition.
2023 ‘Visual Music’- Wexford Opera Festival group show, Rosslare Gallery, Wexford
2023 ‘HOME’ - Green Door Gallery Online Exhibition, Brussels.
2023 OXO 2023 Exhibition, Outset Gallery, Galway, Ireland.
2024 ‘Here there be Dragons’ – Studio West, Cleggan, Co. Galway
2024 Dublin Sketching and Painting club 146th Annual Non-Members Exhibition, Dublin,Ireland.
2025 Bloodroot | Lá Fhéile Bríde | Celebrating the Poetry of Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Pulchri Studio, the Hague 2025.
2025 Beyond the Prize, Mall Galleries, London.
2025 Royal British Artist Society Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2025 London Art Biennale 2025
2025 Notre Dame Kylemore 'Threshold' Festival, Ireland.
2025 The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art Second Biennial Exhibition.
2025 Dublin Sketching and Painting club 147th Annual Non-Members Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland.
2025 ‘Winter Gathering’, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, Ireland.
2025 ‘Art from the West’, Kunstcentrum de Kolk, Spaarndam, Netherlands.
2026 'Fold' Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme, Ireland.
RESIDENCIES
2019 Inish Lackin Island Group, Roundstone, Ireland.
2025 Master of Fine Arts: Art Residency Program- Notre Dame Kylemore, Ireland.
2025 Hakoniemi Artist Residency, Finland.
2026 NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland.
2026 Konstepidemin Artist Residency, Göteborg, Sweden.
AWARDS/COLLECTIONS
2022 Longlisted for RDS Art Awards
2022 ‘Drained’ Oil painting acquired for Public Collection Atlantic Technological University
2023 Young Artist Award Winner -Royal Pastel Society Open Call Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2025 Collins Plastic Award- The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art Second Biennial Exhibition.
2026 Honorable Mention in the 40th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition