# List of Irish women artists

This is a list of women artists who were born in Ireland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.
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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Anne Acheson (1882–1962), sculptor
* Mary Alment (1834–1908), landscape, portrait artist
* Mary Arrigan (born 1943), illustrator, artist and novelist

## B

* Ethelwyn Baker (1899–1988), sculptor
* Maude Mary Ball (1883–1969), painter and sculptor
* Ethel Gresley Ball (1886–1959), painter and sculptor
* Moyra Barry (1886–1960), flower painter
* Rose Maynard Barton (1856–1929), painter
* Mary Battersby (fl. 1801–1841), painter, naturalist
* Frances Beckett (1880–1951), painter
* Edith Anna Bell (1870–1929), sculptor
* Dorothy Blackham (1896–1975), illustrator, painter, educator
* Edith Blake (1846–1926), botanical illustrator, writer
* Norma Borthwick (1862–1934), British artist, writer, Irish language activist
* Alicia Boyle (1908–1997), landscape artist
* Nicola Gordon Bowe (1948–2018), art historian, educator
* Gretta Bowen (1880–1981), painter
* Sarah Bowie (fl. 2010s), illustrator, author, cartoonist
* Muriel Brandt (1909–1981), painter
* Ruth Brandt (1936–1989), painter, educator
* Melanie Le Brocquy (1919–2018), sculptor
* Colleen Browning (1929–2003), realist painter
* Laura Buckley (1977–2022), video and installation artist
* Letitia Bushe (c. 1705/1710–1757), water painter, miniaturist
* Mildred Anne Butler (1885–1941), painter

## C

* Margaret Callan (c.1817–c.1883), teacher, nationalist, writer, used the pseudonym Thornton MacMahon
* Maeve Clancy, paper cut artist, illustrator
* Ellen Creathorne Clayton (1834–1900), painter
* Margaret Clarke (1888–1961), portrait painter
* Anne Cleary (born 1965), installation and video artist
* Susan Connolly (artist) (born 1976), contemporary artist
* Amanda Coogan (born 1971), performance artist
* Sylvia Cooke-Collis (1900–1973), painter
* Catherine Teresa Cookson (fl. 1830s), botanical artist
* Kathleen Cox (1904–1972), Irish artist, sculptor, mystic
* Mia Cranwill (1880–1972), designer, metal artist
* Dorothy Cross (born 1956), contemporary artist
* Amelia Curran (1775–1847), portrait painter
* Fanny Currey (1848–1917), horticulturalist and watercolour painter

## D

* Elinor Darwin (1879–1954), illustrator, engraver, portrait painter
* Lilian Davidson (1879–1954), painter, writer
* Kate Dobbin (1868–1955), watercolour artist
* Phoebe Donovan (1902–1998), flower, landscape and portrait artist
* Anne Donnelly (born 1932), painter
* Susanna Drury (1698–1770), landscape painter

## E

* Frances Anne Edgeworth (1769–1865), botanical artist, memoirist
* Diana Conyngham Ellis (1813–1851), botanical artist
* Beatrice Elvery (1881–1970), stained-glass artist, painter

## F

* Marianne Fannin (1845–1938), botanical artist
* Genieve Figgis (born 1972), contemporary painter
* Kathleen Fox (1880–1963), painter, enamellist, stained glass artist

## G

* Catherine Gage (1815–1892), botanist, botanical and ornithological illustrator
* Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955), stained glass artist
* Evelyn Gleeson (1855–1944), embroidery, carpet, and tapestry designer
* Carol Graham (born 1951), contemporary artist.
* Eileen Gray (1879–1976), furniture designer, architect
* Elizabeth Gray (1837–1903), painter, etcher, photographer
* Beatrice Gubbins (1878–1944), watercolour artist
* Althea Gyles (1868–1949), poet, painter, illustrator

## H

* Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876–1960), painter
* Letitia Marion Hamilton (1878–1964), landscape painter
* Marianne-Caroline Hamilton (1777–1861), artist, memoirist
* Marie Hanlon (born 1948), painter
* Alice Hanratty (born 1939), printmaker
* Elayne Harrington (born 1987 or 1988), visual artist
* Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941), painter
* Gertrude Hartland (1865–1954), illustrator
* Gabriel Hayes (1909–1978), sculptor
* Mercedes Helnwein (born 1979), painter, writer, video artist
* Grace Henry (1868–1953), Scottish landscape artist
* Mary Balfour Herbert (1817–1893), watercolourist
* Katie Holten (born 1975), contemporary artist
* Helen Hooker (1905–1993), sculptor, portrait painter
* Evie Hone (1894–1955), painter, stained glass artist

## J

* Alice Jacob (1862–1921), botanical illustrator, lace designer, design teacher
* Joan Jameson (1892–1953), still-life, landscape and figure artist
* Yvonne Jammet (1900–1967), landscape painter, sculptor
* Mainie Jellett (1897–1944), painter
* Debbie Jenkinson, illustrator and comics artist
* Rachel Joynt (born 1966), sculptor

## K

* Harriet Kavanagh (1799–1885), artist, traveller, antiquarian
* Frances Kelly (1908–2002), painter
* Martha King (c.1803–1897), botanical artist
* Alice Sarah Kinkead (1871–1926), painter

## L

* Elish Lamont (c.1800/1816–1870), miniaturist
* Grania Langrishe (born 1934), botanical illustrator
* Lady Hazel Lavery (1880–1935), artist
* Mary Concepta Lynch (1874–1939), Irish nun and calligrapher

## M

* Gladys Maccabe (1918–2018), painter
* Isa Macnie (1869–1958), croquet champion, cartoonist, suffragist and activist
* Anne Madden (born 1932), painter
* Anne Magill, painter, illustrator
* Alice Maher (born 1956), multidisciplinary artist
* Mary Manning (1853–1930), landscape artist, teacher
* Sine MacKinnon (1901–1996), landscape artist
* Kathleen Marescaux (1868–1944), painter
* Sheila McClean (1932–2016), painter
* Siobhan McDonald, multidisciplinary artist
* Norah McGuinness (1901–1980), painter, illustrator
* Yvonne McGuinness (born 1972), contemporary artist
* Eva McKee (1890–1955), craftswoman and designer
* Flora Mitchell (1890–1973), American-born Irish artist
* Dorothy Molloy (1942–2004), poet and artist

## O

* Catherine Amelia O'Brien (1881–1963), stained glass artist
* Florence Vere O'Brien (1854–1936), diarist, philanthropist, craftswoman
* Geraldine O'Brien (1922–2014), botanical illustrator
* Kitty Wilmer O'Brien (1910–1983), landscape artist
* Nelly O'Brien (1864–1925), miniaturist, landscape artist, Gaelic League activist
* Harriet Osborne O'Hagan (1830–1921), portrait artist
* Helen Sophia O'Hara (1846–1920), watercolour artist
* Bea Orpen (1913–1980), landscape and portrait painter, teacher
* Catherine Isabella Osborne (1818–1880), artist, writer, patron

## P

* Aine Phillips (born 1965), performance artist, writer
* Ellice Pilkington (1869–1936), women's activist and artist
* Katherine Plunket (1820–1932), botanical illustrator
* Caroline Pounds (fl. 1840–1880), watercolour artist
* Rosamond Praeger (1867–1954), artist, sculptor, poet, writer
* Kathy Prendergast (born 1958), artist, sculptor
* Sarah Purser (1848–1943), stained glass artist

## R

* Mary Redmond (1863–1930), sculptor
* Nano Reid (1900–1981), painter
* Ethel Rhind (1877–1952), stained-glass and mosaic artist
* Anne Rigney (born 1957), abstract artist, sculptor
* Elizabeth Rivers (1903–1964), stained-glass, painter, engraver, illustrator
* Florence Ross (1870–1949), artist

## S

* Caroline Scally (1886–1973), landscape artist
* Susan Sex (born 1947), botanical artist
* Estella Solomons (1882–1968), painter
* Edith Somerville (1858–1949), writer, painter, illustrator, suffragist
* Elizabeth Shaw (1920–1992), illustrator, children's book author
* Everina Sinclair (1870–1966), woodworker and teacher
* Niamh Sharkey, author and illustrator of children’s picturebooks
* Camille Souter (1929–2023), painter
* Stella Steyn (1907–1987), painter, illustrator
* Sophia St John Whitty (1877–1924), woodcarver, teacher, cooperativist
* Imogen Stuart (1927–2024), German-Irish sculptor
* Mary Swanzy (1882–1978), landscape and genre artist
* Mary Rankin Swan (1865–1944), portrait artist

## T

* Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936), illustrator, painter, embroiderer
* Helen Mabel Trevor (1831–1900), painter
* Alys Fane Trotter (1862–1961), poet, artist

## V

* Dairine Vanston (1903–1988), landscape artist
* Lilla Vanston (1870–1959), sculptor, portrait painter

## W

* Sophia Wellbeloved (born 1940), sculptor
* Sophia St John Whitty (1877–1924), woodcarver
* Daphne Wright (born 1963), visual artist
* Gladys Wynne (1876–1968), watercolourist

## Y

* Anne Yeats (1919–2001), painter, stage designer
* Lily Yeats (1866–1949), embroiderer
* Mabel Young (1889–1974), artist