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Biography

Seoidín O'Sullivan is an artist, educator, and interdisciplinary researcher whose collaborative practice brings communities together to protect and reimagine the commons. Working across a range of creative media, her work explores relationships between people, place, and ecology.

Grounded in participatory, socially engaged art methodologies, Seoidín collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to reveal ecological systems, co-create collective imaginaries, and work towards multi-species futures in the context of climate crisis. Her practice sits within the field of Critical Ecologies, using creative processes as tools for dialogue, care, and ecological action. Outputs include drawing, installation, video, publications, walks, and pedagogical exchange.

Seoidín lectures in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, where her teaching emphasises embodied practice, experiential learning, collective making, and critical engagement with place. At NCAD, she co-leads the Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Ecology, teaches Sustainable Exhibition Making with the Creative Futures Academy, and also lectures in Critical Cultures and First Year Studies.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include The Sky is Falling (Ormston House, 2024), Corncrake Dollar (EVA International, 2023), and Holdings (Solstice Arts Centre, 2023). In 2023, she was awarded an artist residency at Dún Laoghaire Baths, where she developed Sea Salon, a collective project inspired by the writings of Rachel Carson. She was also a contributor to Mapping Green Dublin (2022), a collaborative research project with UCD Geography and Common Ground, focused on mapping Dublin's tree canopy.

Seoidín grew up in Kitwe, Zambia, and later lived in Durban, South Africa, experiences that continue to inform her artistic practice and pedagogical approach. She completed a degree in Fine Art in Durban in 2000, followed by a Master's in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2005–2007). She complemented postgraduate qualifications in Third Level Teaching and Learning (2010) and in International Development Studies (2004).

contact: seoidin(at)gmail.com