Lola Donoghue is a visual artist based in Galway, Ireland. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art, Painting and a First Class Honours post graduate diploma in Art and Design Education. She graduated top of her class receiving the highest grade in her year and received the Collector General’s Award for her work. She taught for a number of years before returning full time to her own professional practice.

She is best known for her large abstract oil paintings. Her current work investigates capacity, how much can exist within a single form at once. Through layered abstraction, she explores containment, endurance, expansion and saturation. Forms overlap, brace, bind and accumulate. Donoghue translates lived experience into form, exploring what it means to hold simultaneous roles, pressures, tenderness and emotional density within one surface. Motherhood informs the architecture of the paintings not as subject matter, but as reorganisation, expansion and division occurring at once. Across the work softness is not fragility, it is load bearing.