Elena Gallagher
Visual Artist
Elena Gallagher is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland, working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Rather than beginning with a predetermined subject, Gallagher’s practice evolves through the processes of walking, collecting, and making. Walking functions as a form of embodied research in her practice, becoming a method of engaging with place and material. She uses this practice to build archives of her surroundings, gathering images, video, sound recordings, and found objects along each walk. These archives then form the foundation for future bodies of work.
Gallagher’s practice emerges from close observation of the everyday environment, attending to the unnoticed rhythms, surfaces, and textures that shape daily experience. By assembling and manipulating imagery and found materials through both digital fabrication and traditional methods, she reconfigures the ordinary into suggestive, expressive forms. This transformation invites alternative ways of seeing and understanding the world, positioning acts of looking and noticing as gestures of care and grounding.
Gallagher holds a first class honours in the Bacelors of Fine Art, Painting from the National College of art and Design, Dublin (2025). During her studies, they spent an Erasmus year in Norway studying at the Oslo Nation Academy of the Arts (Khio) and interning at Aldea (Centre of Contemporary Art, Design and Technology) (2024). They have exhibited across Ireland in collaborative shows and cross-university exhibitions in Dublin, Limerick and Cork, as well as internationally at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway.
Gallagher holds a first class honours in the Bacelors of Fine Art, Painting from the National College of art and Design, Dublin (2025). During her studies, they spent an Erasmus year in Norway studying at the Oslo Nation Academy of the Arts (Khio) and interning at Aldea (Centre of Contemporary Art, Design and Technology) (2024). They have exhibited across Ireland in collaborative shows and cross-university exhibitions in Dublin, Limerick and Cork, as well as internationally at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway.