EMMA STROUDE
Visual Artist
Profile
I am a professional artist and play an active role in the arts in Sligo, Ireland. Primarily a painter, I won the Irish Arts Review Ireland–U.S. Council Portraiture Award at the RHA in 2021. I became the recipient of the inaugural In Plain Sight portraiture commission awarded by King’s Inns and The Bar of Ireland in 2022. I was commissioned by the OPW to paint the first four female senators for Seanad Éireann in 2022.
Significant recent exhibitions include Slow Heat, a solo exhibition at Claremorris Gallery, Mayo (2025); Kulturpreise des Landes Niederösterreich at NÖDOK, St. Pölten, Austria (2025); Mid-Air & Middle Ground and Preparations For The Big Wide World at Custom House Studios & Gallery, Mayo (2024); The Sligo Wave at The Model, Sligo (2024); and Lapis Lazuli at Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, travelling to Beijing (2023–24).
I am a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland and a committee member of Cairde Visual (Sligo Arts Festival).
My work is held in private and public collections including OPW, HSE, Kildare County Council, and Sligo County Council.
Education
1998–1999
PGHDip Art and Design Teaching – First Class Honours
Awarded the Terence Gayer Prize
National College of Art and Design
1994–1996
PGHDip Fine Art Painting
The Slade School of Art, University College London
1991–1994
BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting – First Class Honours
Chelsea College of Art and Design, The London Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2025 – Slow Heat, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo
2024 – Mid-Air & Middle Ground; Preparations For The Big Wide World, Custom House Studios & Gallery, Westport, Mayo
2022 – A Personal Freedom, Avalon, Dublin 4
2020 – Treading A Fine Line, The Model, Sligo
2019 – Curious, The Kildare Gallery, Maynooth
2016 – Glow, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2015 – Elsewhere, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Royal Hibernian Academy – 187th, 188th, 189th, 191st, 192nd, 193rd & 194th Annual Exhibitions
The Royal Ulster Academy – 136th, 137th, 139th & 142nd Annual Exhibitions
Grants & Residencies
2025 – AIR-NÖE Artist in Residence, Krems, Lower Austria
2025 – Live / Work / Play Arts Practice Funding, Sligo Arts Office
2025 – Six-month studio residency, The Model (funded by Sligo Arts Office)
2021 – Arts Council Agility Award
Contact
Address: Castlegowan, Grange, Sligo, F91 CX46
Phone: +353 (0)86 051 3509
Website: www.emmastroude.com
Email: emmastroude@gmail.com
References
Martina Hamilton
Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
info@hamiltongallery.ie
Jaquie Moore
Arts Management, OPW
jacquie.moore@opw.ie