Elizabeth

O'Kane

Elizabeth is a Dublin based sculptor and painter. Originally a French translator, Elizabeth is

largely a self-taught artist, best known for her bronze sculptures of John Hume, John Count

McCormack in Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens, Spiorad Ban Chíarraí in Tralee, and Dr Garret

FitzGerald.

Elizabeth was elected a member of the Water Colour Society of Ireland in 2013 and served

on the WCSI committee from 2016 - 2025. She is also a member of the Ulster Watercolour

Society and the Dublin Painting and Sketching Club. Her paintings are architectural in

content. She is a regular attendee at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Art’s life-drawing

sessions.

She is an elected member of The Society of Portrait Sculptors, and of The Art Students

League of New York, where she has studied regularly since 2008. She has also studied at the

Florence Academy of Art, and the Pietrasanta Marble School in Italy.

Collectors of her work include the European Parliament, Irish Embassies in Washington DC

and London, the Department of Foreign Affairs, OPW, National Concert Hall, National

Library of Ireland, University of Limerick, UCD, Kerry Co. Council, Shannon Airport,

IRFU, Munster Rugby and Belfast City Hall.

Exhibitions include the Zurich Portrait Prize 2020, Society of Portrait Sculptors in London,

and RHA annual exhibitions where she was Invited Artist in 2022, 2020 and 2018, and won

the RHA Conor/Moran Sculpture Award in 2007. In 2023 she was granted the Arts Council

of Ireland Agility Award.

Elizabeth has lectured in portrait sculpture to the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland,

and at the Institute of Art Design & Technology Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. She was invited to

judge the inaugural Sir William Orpen Portrait Prize in 2025, a prestigiuos all-Ireland self-

portrait competition.