William O’Neill’s paintings are process driven. He meticulously creates still-life scenes, which he photographs and works from. He’s interested in these still-life arrangements for their angles, shapes, the positive/negative space they create, how the objects interact with each other and their potential as subject matter.
Bio
Born in 1986 in Dublin, lives and works in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in 2009. In 2023 he undertook an artist residency at Joya: arte + ecología / AiR, Almeria, Spain. ‘Luminous Gatherings’ his first solo exhibition took place at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in 2022. He was the recipient of the Solstice Visual Arts Award at Solstice Arts Centre in 2021. In 2019, he was shortlisted for the RHA Hennessy Craig Award. His first artist book, William O’Neill Paintings, was published in 2023 by Kevin Kavanagh. Recent group exhibitions include; Moments of Being, Solstice Arts Centre, 2025; Surveyor 2024, Solstice Arts Centre, 2024; Bucolica Open Call Exhibition, Artform, Mount Congreve Gardens, 2024; 194th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, 2024; Open Submission Group Show 2023, Dunamaise Arts Centre, 2023; Connections, Boyle Arts Festival, 2023.