Djuna O’Neill

Djuna O’Neill is an Irish, London - based artist who works across text, digital mediums and mixed media sculpture. Her current work draws on themes of Irish folklore, concepts of world building found in gaming environments and science fiction, and the hauntological as a tool for exhuming untold stories and building future imaginaries.

Djuna was awarded the warden’s prize at the Goldsmiths MA degree show, exhibiting with the inaugural year of the MA Art and Ecology in 2022. Since then she has been commissioned to create a body of work for a solo exhibition at Flatland Projects, Bexhill-on-Sea, with curator Fran Painter Fleming and supported by the De La Warr Pavilion. During the development of this commission Djuna received support from the Discovery Programme, Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, to repurpose archeological 3D lidar scan data. Djuna’s practice conveys an archeology of mediums of storytelling; following threads of folklore which have continued from one intangible form to another.

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  • Djuna O’Neill’s website

Djuna O’Neill, still from The Ground is Kind, Black Butter, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.