Olive Stack was born in 1974 and is a native of Listowel, County Kerry. She is a graduate of the Limerick College of Art and Design where she studied painting from 1992-1995. Subsequent to leaving college Olive worked for a time as a muralist and received several major commissions. She had her first solo exhibition in 1996 which was opened by the former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Charles J. Haughey and has since exhibited in Ireland, UK U.S.A and Canada. In 1998 the Olive Stack Gallery was established in Listowel, where an ongoing exhibition of her most recent work can be viewed. Olive had a residency in Cill Rialaig Artists Retreat in 2003 and her first book 'North Kerry the Magic and Legend' was published in 2006

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Dec 2008 Olive Stack Gallery 10th Anniversary Exhibition

Apr 2009 Art Forms Gallery Carlow

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Nov 2006 St.John's Art Centre, Listowel

Sept 2003 Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Co.Kerry

Nov 1998 Sheerness Gallery, Kent, England

June 1998 Weald Gallery, Cranbrook, Kent

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Oct 2008 'On Common Ground IV' Narrow Space Gallery Clonmel

Oct 2008 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada

May 2008 Writers Week Exhibition Olive Stack Gallery

Mar 2008 Magnan Projects, Chelsea New York

Aug 2007 Brendan Kennelly Festival

June 2007 'Artvitae Unplugged' Olive Stack Gallery

May 2007 Feile na Bealtaine Dingle

Dec 2006 'Christmas Show' Narrow Space Gallery Clonmel

Oct 2006 'On Common Ground III' Essex Art Ass. Gallery CT USA

Aug 2006 Brendan Kennelly Festival

Dec 2005 Invited Artist Florence Biennale Italy

Dec 2005 Narrow Space Gallery Clonmel

Feb 2005 Loughlin Bowe Art Auction Cork

Nov 2004 'Art Ireland' Dublin

Oct 2004 Narrow Space Gallery Clonmel

Sept 2004 'On Common Ground II' Narrow Space Gallery Clonmel

Aug 2004 Brendan Kennelly Festival

Jul 2004 'On Common Ground I' Olive Stack Gallery

Apr 2004 'Ireland' Sylvan Gallery Clinton CT USA

Feb 2004 'Spring Show' Narrow Space Gallery Clonmel

June 2003 Siamsa Tire Tralee Co Kerry

RESIDENCIES

15th-31st Oct 2003 'Cill Rialaig' Artists Retreat

PUBLICATIONS

'North Kerry - The Magic and Legend' (2006)