About

F. H. Rowell (Fionnuala Hanahoe Rowell) is a contemporary visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She holds a First Class Honours BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design (2009). Her work has been commissioned by Dublin City Council and Mayo County Council, and she was selected for the Dublin City Council Artists’ Panel (2009–2012). She has exhibited in EVA International and in curated exhibitions. Her work is held in numerous private collections and she is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland.

Working across painting, moving image, sound, artificial intelligence, sculpture, and emerging technologies, her practice centres on moments of sustained attention — instances in which the familiar is encountered more fully. Drawing from the natural world, everyday experience, and processes of making, her work focuses on subtle movements, material behaviours, and fleeting occurrences that often go unnoticed. Through amplification, repetition, translation, and duration, these processes are brought into sharper perceptual focus.

Rather than treating technology as separate from human experience, the work investigates how deep engagement with process — even through advanced technologies such as AI — can reconnect us to forms of presence, attention, and feeling that contemporary life often fragments. Contrasting mediums are frequently brought into dialogue within her work to test whether certain perceptual or emotional conditions can persist across radically different material states.

The resulting works move between the natural and the artificial, the physical and immaterial, the handmade and computational. Across these oppositions, the practice asks what forms of connection, attention, and shared experience remain possible beyond medium itself.

Selected exhibitions, commissions, awards, and publications.

2026

  • Rare Evo Digital Art Exhibition, Las Vegas, Curated by John Knopf (upcoming, July 2026)

2023

2022

  • Ink Leaf Sculpture , Adelia Gallery, group exhibition, Curated by Kam Maleki; collected by Raphael Erba

  • Ink Flower Installation, Flower Gang Exhibition, 1stDibs
    Curated by Anna Condo, collected by Trevor Jones

  • Community Gallery #6, Cryptovoxels / IAMA​NOTART
    The Beauty That Surrounds Us is Within Us
    Collected by the ACE Collection

2012

  • Bridging Sounds, temporary public artwork
    Commissioned by Mayo County Council, Castlebar

2010

  • Hopeful Structures, public art exhibition
    St. Anne’s Park, Dublin (Dublin City Council) curated by Sally Timmons

  • Matters, eva International
    Curated by Elizabeth Hatz

  • Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

2009

  • NCAD Degree Show, Dublin

2008

  • Lighting the Liberties, Dublin City Council

  • CREATE Exhibition, This is Not a Shop, Dublin

  • Bus Stop Bus, Dublin Docklands

  • RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition, RDS Dublin

  • RDS Student Art Awards Touring Exhibition, Tyrone & Tipperary

2007

  • RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy

  • Out of Site, Out of Mind, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios

  • Finn’s Giant Festival, Oxford Island, Armagh

2003

  • IADT Graduate Show, Dublin

Awards & Achievements

2026

  • Finalist, Claire Silver AI Art Prize

2022

  • Featured artist, Art Angels (Episode 2, a conversation with artist Trevor Jones)

2010

  • Landmark Per Cent for Art Bursary Award, Mayo County Council

2009–2012

  • Selected Artist, Dublin City Council Artists’ Panel

2009

  • Graduate Studio Award, Red Stables Artists’ Studios, Dublin

  • Commendation Prize, NCAD Degree Thesis

2008

  • Finalist, NCAD Student Prize

Publications & Press

2021

  • “What’s it like to really live in a virtual world?”, The Irish Times

2012

  • Landmark, Sarah Searson

2010

  • “Art in Public: Roundup”, Visual Artists’ News Sheet

  • Hopeful Structures, exhibition catalogue

  • ev+a, exhibition catalogue

2009

  • NCAD Degree Show, catalogue

  • Supermassive Blackhole, online publication

2008

  • RDS Student Art Awards, catalogue

  • Bus Stop Bus, catalogue

2007

  • Out of Site, Out of Mind, catalogue

2003

  • IADT Graduate Show, catalogue

Education

  • BFA (Hons, First Class) National College of Art and Design (Dublin) 2009

  • Certificate in Visual Education, IADT, 2003

  • BA (Hons) History & Politics, University College Dublin