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.
A
- Anne Acheson, sculptor
- Mary Alment, landscape, portrait artist
- Mary Arrigan, illustrator, artist and novelist
B
- Maude Mary Ball, painter and sculptor
- Ethel Gresley Ball, painter and sculptor
- Moyra Barry, flower painter
- Rose Maynard Barton, painter
- Mary Battersby, painter, naturalist
- Frances Beckett, painter
- Edith Anna Bell, sculptor
- Dorothy Blackham, illustrator, painter, educator
- Edith Blake, botanical illustrator, writer
- Norma Borthwick, British artist, writer, Irish language activist
- Alicia Boyle, landscape artist
- Nicola Gordon Bowe, art historian, educator
- Gretta Bowen, painter
- Sarah Bowie, illustrator, author, cartoonist
- Muriel Brandt, painter
- Ruth Brandt, painter, educator
- Melanie Le Brocquy, sculptor
- Colleen Browning, realist painter
- Letitia Bushe, water painter, miniaturist
- Mildred Anne Butler, painter
C
- Margaret Callan, teacher, nationalist, writer, used the pseudonym Thornton MacMahon
- Maeve Clancy, paper cut artist, illustrator
- Ellen Creathorne Clayton, painter
- Margaret Clarke, portrait painter
- Anne Cleary, installation and video artist
- Susan Connolly , contemporary artist
- Amanda Coogan, performance artist
- Catherine Teresa Cookson, botanical artist
- Diana Copperwhite, Contemporary Artist
- Kathleen Cox, Irish artist, sculptor, mystic
- Mia Cranwill, designer, metal artist
- Dorothy Cross, contemporary artist
- Amelia Curran, portrait painter
- Fanny Currey, horticulturalist and watercolour painter
D
- Elinor Darwin, illustrator, engraver, portrait painter
- Lilian Davidson, painter, writer
- Kate Dobbin, watercolour artist
- Phoebe Donovan, flower, landscape and portrait artist
- Anne Donnelly, painter
- Susanna Drury, landscape painter
E
- Frances Anne Edgeworth, botanical artist, memoirist
- Diana Conyngham Ellis, botanical artist
- Beatrice Elvery, stained-glass artist, painter
F
- Marianne Fannin, botanical artist
- Genieve Figgis, contemporary painter
- Kathleen Fox, painter, enamellist, stained glass artist
G
- Catherine Gage, botanist, botanical and ornithological illustrator
- Wilhelmina Geddes, stained glass artist
- Evelyn Gleeson, embroidery, carpet, and tapestry designer
- Carol Graham, contemporary artist.
- Eileen Gray, furniture designer, architect
- Elizabeth Gray, painter, etcher, photographer
- Beatrice Gubbins, watercolour artist
- Althea Gyles, poet, painter, illustrator
H
- Eva Henrietta Hamilton, painter
- Letitia Marion Hamilton, landscape painter
- Marianne-Caroline Hamilton, artist, memoirist
- Marie Hanlon, painter
- Alice Hanratty, printmaker
- Sarah Cecilia Harrison, painter
- Gertrude Hartland, illustrator
- Gabriel Hayes, sculptor
- Mercedes Helnwein, painter, writer, video artist
- Grace Henry, Scottish landscape artist
- Mary Balfour Herbert, watercolourist
- Jane Hughes , contemporary artist
- Katie Holten, contemporary artist
- Helen Hooker, sculptor, portrait painter
- Evie Hone, painter, stained glass artist
J
- Alice Jacob, botanical illustrator, lace designer, design teacher
- Joan Jameson, still-life, landscape, and figure artist
- Yvonne Jammet, landscape painter, sculptor
- Mainie Jellett, painter
- Rachel Joynt, sculptor
K
- Harriet Kavanagh, artist, traveller, antiquarian
- Frances Kelly, painter
- Martha King, botanical artist
- Alice Sarah Kinkead, painter
L
- Elish Lamont, miniaturist
- Grania Langrishe, botanical illustrator
- Lady Hazel Lavery, artist
- Mary Concepta Lynch, Irish nun and calligrapher
M
- Gladys Maccabe, painter
- Isa Macnie, croquet champion, cartoonist, suffragist and activist
- Anne Madden, painter
- Anne Magill, painter, illustrator
- Alice Maher, multidisciplinary artist
- Mary Manning, landscape artist, teacher
- Sine MacKinnon, landscape artist
- Kathleen Marescaux, painter
- Sheila McClean, painter
- Siobhan McDonald multidisciplinary artist
- Norah McGuinness, painter, illustrator
- Yvonne McGuinness, contemporary artist
- Eva McKee, craftswoman and designer
- Flora Mitchell, American-born Irish artist
- Dorothy Molloy, poet and artist
O
- Catherine Amelia O'Brien, stained glass artist
- Florence Vere O'Brien, diarist, philanthropist, craftswoman
- Geraldine O'Brien, botanical illustrator
- Kitty Wilmer O'Brien, landscape artist
- Nelly O'Brien, miniaturist, landscape artist, Gaelic League activist
- Harriet Osborne O'Hagan, portrait artist
- Helen Sophia O'Hara, watercolour artist
- Bea Orpen, landscape and portrait painter, teacher
- Catherine Isabella Osborne, artist, writer, patron
P
- Aine Phillips, performance artist, writer
- Ellice Pilkington, women's activist and artist
- Katherine Plunket, botanical illustrator
- Caroline Pounds, watercolour artist
- Rosamond Praeger, artist, sculptor, poet, writer
- Kathy Prendergast, artist, sculptor
- Sarah Purser, stained glass artist
R
- Mary Redmond, sculptor
- Nano Reid, painter
- Ethel Rhind, stained-glass and mosaic artist
- Anne Rigney, abstract artist, sculptor
- Elizabeth Rivers, stained-glass, painter, engraver, illustrator
- Florence Ross, artist
S
- Caroline Scally, landscape artist
- Susan Sex, botanical artist
- Estella Solomons, painter
- Elizabeth Shaw, illustrator, children's book author
- Everina Sinclair, woodworker and teacher
- Niamh Sharkey author and illustrator of children’s picturebooks
- Camille Souter, painter
- Stella Steyn, painter, illustrator
- Sophia St John Whitty, woodcarver, teacher, cooperativist
- Imogen Stuart, German-Irish sculptor
- Mary Swanzy, landscape and genre artist
- Mary Rankin Swan, portrait artist
T
- Phoebe Anna Traquair, illustrator, painter, embroiderer
- Helen Mabel Trevor, painter
- Alys Fane Trotter, poet, artist
V
- Dairine Vanston, landscape artist
- Lilla Vanston, sculptor, portrait painter
W
- Sophia Wellbeloved, sculptor
- Sophia St John Whitty, woodcarver
- Daphne Wright, visual artist
- Gladys Wynne, watercolourist
Y
- Anne Yeats, painter, stage designer
- Lily Yeats, embroiderer
- Mabel Young, artist