Tour | With Lily O’Shea at Muine Bheag Arts

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Muine Bheag Arts is thrilled to welcome artist Lily O’Shea as part of COMMUNE. Lily will present a new body of work, a framework for me and you, which responds to conditions of precarity within the context of the housing crisis and points towards alternative ways of looking at space and home.

Lily will lead a tour of her public sculpture series, along with a reading by Ali O’Shea who has written a text in response to the work. This will be followed by an open discussion with members of CATU.

More information and booking here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/tour-with-artist-lily-oshea-discussion-with-catu-17th-august-2pm-tickets-1510992672759?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Lily O’Shea is a visual artist based in Cork, working across sculpture, drawing, and writing. Through woodwork, she creates quasi-sculptural forms that develop into immersive installations, integrating technical drawings and reflective texts. Lily’s research-based practice explores different methods of survival in a fluctuating ideological structure, while emphasizing the need to reclaim and redefine our relationship with time.

In 2025, Lily was awarded the Evolve Practice Award by Fire Station Artists’ Studios, where she completed a three-month residency. Recent work has featured in Bless The Corners of This House (Bloomers, Cork, 2025), The Collision Project (screen service, Dublin, 2024), and CCA Introducing (Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry, 2024). Lily is a recent recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary and Agility Award (2024), and was previously supported by the Creative Practitioner Bursary from Galway City Council in 2023.

Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) is a membership-based Union for Communities & Tenants in Ireland with active branches across the country. CATU was founded in Dublin in 2019 by a few dozen tenants, to help share resources and skills to empower themselves and their neighbours facing eviction, homelessness and housing precarity.

COMMUNE is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Carlow Arts Office, Creative Ireland Carlow and Bagenalstown Creative Places

Sunday 17th August 2025 – 2pm