Clonmel Art Trail: Unconformities by Bridget O’Gorman

Unconformities is a series of text-based interventions throughout Clonmel by Bridget O’Gorman, an artist and writer working with text, live event, video and sculpture. The work describes a series of sculptural objects which were never made – each piece existing as a conjured presence, invites unexpected encounter outside of the traditional exhibition space.

Funded as part of the Culture Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.

In partnership with Culture Ireland.

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Bridget O’Gorman (she/her) is an artist and writer working with text, live event, video and sculpture. Her career includes group and solo exhibitions and her works are held in public collections including the Butler Gallery, OPW and The Arts Council of Ireland. Recent projects include ‘The Skin Reads the Room’, Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, IE, 2025, ‘Supernatural Bread‘, Project Arts Centre, IE, 2022, ‘On Slowness‘, Auto Italia UK 2021, ‘The Legacy of Gesture‘, FACT & DaDa Fest UK, 2019. Over the past five years she has been supported in disability-led research by Arts Council England, A-N, and the Arts Council of Ireland. She was a portfolio artist with field:arts curator and producer, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. In 2023 they developed an ambitious new body of sculpture and text entitled ‘Support | Work’ as part of TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland. In 2025, her collective research project ‘Deep Time’ was funded through an Arts Council of Ireland Project Award and produced as part of the 41st EVA International Platform Commissions.

Per artist Bridget O’Gorman, “The work speaks to overlooked parts of Clonmel that we habitually pass by, largely unnoticed in our daily lives. This idea appealed to me, also because it allows for an opportunity to create work one might happen upon – and perhaps engage people who might not necessarily attend a traditional art exhibition.”

“Unconformities is a series of five temporary, text based interventions throughout Clonmel. The texts describe a series of sculptural objects, materials or environments which were never made. Each intervention exists as a conjured presence – inviting unexpected encounter outside of the traditional exhibition space.”