Amanda Dunsmore’s portraiture artworks are created through socio-political-historical research. She was artist in residence at The Maze/Long Kesh prison (1998/1999). In 2012, she was commissioned for a year-long Public Art Residency as part of Galway County Council Public Art Programme working with Older Galway County/City LGBTQ+ Community, which led to the art project Becoming Christine. Forthcoming artist residencies include the Jackman Goldwasser Fellowship Residency, at the Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago and at the former famine village of Cill Rialaig, Kerry, Ireland, in 2022.

She has exhibited widely, including The Hugh Lane and the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin, and the Crawford Art Gallery, in Cork. International exhibitions in Belfast, Reykjavik, Chicago, Aabenraa, Sydney, Genève, Berlin, Dresden, Derry/Londonderry, London, Weimar, Linz, and Melbourne. Her artworks featured in public collections including Ireland’s National Collection through the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; The Hugh Lane, Dublin; Galway County Council; the Ulster Museum, Northern Ireland and the ACC Galerie, Germany.

Amanda Dunsmore is currently working on the 'Vienna Portraits - Woman of Politics' with Kunstraum Goethe Strasse xtd, Linz, Austria. She represented by ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany for the major public artwork PLAN. Dunsmore’s work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council and Culture Ireland. Amanda studied at the Newport College of Further Education, South Wales, 1986-87, at Ulster University, Belfast, 1987-1991 and the University of Limerick, 1999-2000. She lives in County Clare and is a Lecturer in Sculpture and Combined Media, at Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS, Ireland.

Photograph of Amanda Dunsmore at the KEEPER exhibition The Hugh Lane, 2018.
Amanda Dunsmore at the KEEPER exhibition artist talk, The Hugh Lane, 2018.
Photograph of Amanda Dunsmore and Christine Beynon at their 2018 artist talk, RHA, Dublin exhibition.
Amanda Dunsmore and Christine Beynon at their 2019 artist talk,
Bourne Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick.

Amanda is currently working on portrait production of the Irish Transgender-Rights activist Dr Lydia Foy  

The AI/Synthetic media portrait of UK Secretary of State, Mo Mowlam is currently in production. Funded by a 2021 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary, Mo Mowlam’s portrait will complete AGREEMENT series. 

The exhibition KEEPER at The Hugh Lane Dublin has been nominated for inclusion in the 2020/2021 Periodical Review X by the Director of Create, Ailbhe Murphy.

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