Una Sealy is a Dublin based painter, and has been a Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) since 2010. In 2020 she was the first person to complete a Master of Science degree in Anatomy for Artists at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), and the following year she was appointed as the inaugural Professor of Art there. She is a tutor in drawing and painting at the RHA School, where she has developed a teaching module on Anatomy for Artists in association with RCSI.
She was a recipient of the 2022 Bealtaine/Fingal Arts/Tyrone Guthrie Centre award, where she worked on a series of paintings about art and anatomy. She has won several other awards including the Ireland-US Council/Irish Arts Review prize for portraiture at the RHA in 2011.
She has held eleven solo exhibitions to date, and her work has been selected for many curated shows in Ireland and abroad. In 2019, she was one of ten artists invited by the Dept of Foreign Affairs to exhibit in China to mark 40 years of Ireland/China diplomatic relations. She has recently been commissioned to paint major portraits for Waterford County Council, Dublin City University, NUI Galway and University of Limerick.
She is a Fellow of Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery of Ireland in 2018. She was a judge on both series of RTE’s Painting the Nation in 2016 and 2017.Additionally, throughout her career, Sealy has been a key figure in the wider fields of community arts, arts education and arts management. Sealy paints domestic interiors, streetscapes, landscapes and portraits.
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