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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Contents: 

• Top
• 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