Ella de Burca

Ella de Búrca carefully combines performance, sculpture and painting to reflect on meaning-making and female histories, creating humorous and poetic experiences that often materialise as temporary immersive installation. Especially interested in how we perform as viewer and how this overlaps with ‘the male gaze,’ de Búrca researches, layers and recontextualises art historical moments to find reference in her lived experience.

de Búrca’s work is in the collection of the Irish Arts Council and Fingal County Council. She has been the recipient of the Irish Arts Council’s Next Generation Award, as well as receiving artist bursaries from the Irish Arts Council, Fingal County Council, Culture Ireland and Platform 31.

Selected exhibitions and performances include: HardMouth Show & Tell, The Cash Shop, Galway, 2025; HomeWORK HouseWORK, Glandwr, Dublin, 2025; Is This a Poem? Museum of Irish Literature, Dublin, 2024; A Place for the Affections, Harlan Levy Gallery, Brussels, 2022 (group show); Kunstenfestival Watou, Belgium, 2021; Flat As The Tongue Lies, The Room Gallery at University of California, Irvine, California, 2018; Post-Peace, the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, 2017; My Brilliant Friend, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin Ireland, 2016. Select artist residencies include The HISK, Gent, Belgium; Air Anterpen, Belgium; The Banff Centre, Canada; The FireStation Production Residency, Ireland; PSsquared, Belfast, UK; and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland.