Sheenagh Geoghegan ‘Forgive me – love, Blue’



Exhibition by Sheenagh Geoghegan from 15th April to 6th May 2023.

Artist Sheenagh Geoghegan works with painting, drawing, words, sound and film exploring states of unsteadiness, vulnerability, interconnectedness and notions of broken, complicated love. Her work is rooted in place and experience, it is materially sensitive, and seems somehow imbued with transformative powers. Forgive me — love, Blue, her solo show at Atelier Concorde, Lisbon, celebrates the uneven, mischievous temporality with which we experience our world, how it evades linearity and mimics the unruly rhythms of our thoughts. Geoghegan maps these wayward rhythms in poetic ways as though guided by the kind of knowing and unknowing that exists only at the very edges of our consciousness.


Sheenagh Geoghegan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ireland. She completed her MFA at The Slade School of Art, London, 2013, being awarded the Stanford Scholarship, The Orpen Award and The Charles Heath Hayward Award. She was chosen in 2012 to represent The Slade to work at dOCUMENTA 13 on the activated projects. She also holds a first-class honours degree from MTU, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork (2003). She has exhibited widely in Europe and America including Cornell University, New York, 2019, Alma Zevi in Venice and Leila Heller Gallery, New York. In 2021 she was awarded a Visual Arts Bursary Award from The Irish Arts Council and an Agility Award in 2022.


Supported by Cultúr Éireann / Culture Ireland
Photographs by Alexandre Ramos