Anna O’Byrne was born in Dublin in 1980, in 1983 her family moved to Tralee, Co Kerry where she lived till 1998 leaving to completing a Diploma in Design Communications at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology. After some years working and starting a fine art practice she completed a Fine Art BA Degree in DIT 2006-10. She won the John Kelly Graduate Award in 2010 and was awarded membership to the Black Church Print Studio. She has been in group shows in La Cathedral Studios, Broadstone Studios, RDS Ballsbridge, Block T Gallery and Studios in Dublin and in Linnenhall, Castebar and Island Arts Centre, Lisburn.
Anna’s work consists of silkscreen printing and drawing, it is about creating a dialogue between the artist’s creative process and the physical qualities of the forms that the process uses. It experiments with the formal qualities of screen printing and drawing, contrasting images with fields of colour and creating colour landscapes from form.
