Andrea Kavanagh, a visual artist based in Dublin who completed three years in Visual Arts Practice at NCAD in 2019. An award-winning artist, her work explores ways of seeing and experiencing form, connecting the delicate medium of porcelain with the natural systems that surround us.
Drawing on themes of biodiversity, the Anthropocene, motherhood, movement, reflection, and transformation, her practice is rooted in a deep engagement with ecological and biological structures. The inherent fragility of porcelain mirrors the tension between delicacy and resilience which is also found in nature. This quality has led to an ongoing exploration of suspension, balance, and motion within her sculptural works.
Andrea is particularly interested in how sculpture can evoke interconnectedness, highlighting the spirituality within natural forms. She continues to seek new ways to engage the viewer through movement, creating works that are not only seen but felt, shifting perception and deepening awareness of the living world.
Her work ranges from site specific installations to gallery exhibitions and commissions.
Andrea has exhibited in many group exhibitions in Dublin and around the country and a highlight was being awarded The ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture at The 192nd RHA Annual exhibition for her work “Inner Sphere” in 2022. She was also shortlisted for The RCSI Irish Times Art Award 2022. Andrea exhibited two new works in The 195th RHA Annual Open exhibition in 2025, she has shown work in their Annual for the last 4 years. Andrea exhibited work in The Ballinglen Arts Biennial in BallyCastle County Mayo in 2025 and recently had work in The Hunt Museum Open exhibition 2026.
Other notable exhibitions include Boyle Arts Festival 2023 “Connections” group exhibition shown at King House, Sculpture in Context at The National Botanic Gardens since 2019 and exhibiting at all five ArtRiddler exhibitions 2022-2026.
In January 2025, Andrea exhibited in “Bloodroot” group exhibition at Pulchri studio, The Hague, Netherlands in a joint venture with The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo where she created a piece of work responding to a poem by the Donegal poet Annemarie Ni Churreain called “Bog Medicine”.
Andrea had two pieces selected in 2025 for Lucid Dreaming at The Lexicon Gallery in Dun Laoghaire in an exhibition curated by Davey Moor curator at The Royal Hibernian Academy. One of her works “Iridescence” was purchased by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Arts for their County collection.
Andrea received An Arts Council Agility Award in 2022 and 2023 and received Arts Grants from her local Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown in 2020 and 2021.
Andrea is a Professional member of Visual Artists Ireland. Andrea lives near the Dublin Mountains where she also has her own studio but she also avails of short term studio facilities at The Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin 1.
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