About Imelda
Imelda Healy was born in and lives in Dublin. She holds degrees in Social Sciences from UCD, History of Art from Trinity College, and a B.F.A. from NCAD. She studied painting as a mature student and won the Symantec Prize for her degree show at the Gallagher Gallery, RHA in 2001.
Imelda was a founder member of Brunswick Mills Studio and Tondo art group. She has exhibited in many solo and group shows in Ireland and California, where she lived in Santa Monica for three years and founded Berkeley Alley Studios, a collective of women artists.
As part of her practice, Imelda has created and run art programs for recovering addicts from the inner city at Merchants Quay, prisoners on probation at Dorset and Irishtown centres and community groups in Ringsend. She curated “River,” a show of work from these groups at the Civic Offices, Dublin in 2005.
Imelda taught drawing classes at the National Gallery from 2007-9 and has been a part-time faculty member in painting and drawing at IADT since 2008.
Solo exhibitions
2018 - Wave Light, Clifden Arts Festival
2017 - Aqua, Clifden Arts Festival
2013 - Malibu Venus, Upper West Gallery, Santa Monica
2010 - Along the Shore, Rosemary McCaffrey, Santa Monica
2009 - Landscape Memory, Kildare Art Centre
2008 - Destructive Beauty, Book Cube Gallery, Dublin
2005 - Strongbow and Aoife, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin
2003 - Out West: California Paintings, Powerscourt Townhouse
2001 - The Desert Flowers, Warren’s Boathouse Gallery, Castletownshend
2000 - The Oedipus Suite, Symantec HQ, Blanchardstown
Group exhibitions
2019 – Art in the Anthropocene, Trinity College.
2018– Solomon Gallery, Dublin
Ranelagh Arts Summer Show, Dublin
Lime Lane Gallery, Monkstown.
2017 – Family, Friends, Lovers, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin.
2013 – Five Women Artists, Santa Monica
Berkeley Alley Studio, Santa Monica.
2012 – Michael’s on Third Street, Santa Monica
Berkeley Alley Studio, Santa Monica.
2011 – Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
2010 – Town and Country, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin.
2008 – Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
Oisin Gallery, Dublin
Ranelagh Arts Festival, Dublin.
2007 – Arts Squad, Powerscourt Townhouse, Dublin
Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin.
2006 – Emerging Artists, RHA, Dublin
Dublin Multiple Choice, Brunswick Mill Studio, Dublin.
2005 – River, Civic Offices, Dublin
2004 – Eight by Eight, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
Mullingar Arts Centre; Basement Gallery, Dundalk
Toradgh Gallery, Co. Meath.
2003 – Appleloft Gallery, Easkey, Co. Sligo
Works on Paper, Brunswick Mill Studio, Dublin.
2002 – Trespass, Brunswick Mill Studio, Dublin
New Work, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaose
Heaven and Earth, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Inner City Artists, St. Catherine’s, Dublin.
2001 – Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow
Brunswick Four, Appleloft Gallery, Dublin.
Public and private collections
National Library Ireland
Rotunda Hospital, Dublin
Franciscan Community, Merchants Quay, Dublin
Trinity College
Neil and Brenda Jordan
Paul McGuinness and Kathy Gilfilan
Tom Jenks and Carol Edgarian, San Francisco
Keith Nolap, Los Angeles
In the Studio, 2000
Roddy Doyle and Imelda at River Show
Oedipus Suite, RHA, 2000
National Library portrait, with Paul Mc Guinness and Gerard Lyne
Imelda's Studio; work in progress
Imelda with Mick O'Dea, Clifden show, 2017
Clifden 2017 show, Imelda with President Michael D Higgins and guest
At Michaels Gallery show, Los Angeles, 2012
'Family and Friends show, 2014, Imelda with 'Selfie from China', oil on canvas
Imelda in her Ranelagh studio