Art Form tours are led by RHA Academicians, and each tour focuses on a specific art form in the exhibition.
Una Sealy is a Dublin based painter, and has been a Member of the RHA since 2010. In 2021 she was appointed as the inaugural Professor of Art at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). She is a graduate of Dun Laoghaire College of Art (now IADT, Fine Art Painting, 1980); UCD (Higher Diploma in Arts Administration 1989); and RCSI, (MSc in Anatomy for Artists 2021). She has won several awards including the Ireland-US Council/Irish Arts Review prize for portraiture at the RHA in 2011. She has held eleven solo exhibitions to date, and her work has been selected for many curated shows in Ireland and abroad. In 2019, she was one of ten artists invited by the Dept of Foreign Affairs to exhibit in China to mark 40 years of Ireland/China diplomatic relations. She has recently been commissioned to paint major portraits for Waterford County Council, Dublin City University and NUI Galway.
She is a fellow of Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and was Artist in Residence at the National Gallery of Ireland in 2018. In 2019 she was Laois County Council’s Artist in Residence at Laois Arthouse. She was the 2018 recipient of Fingal County Council’s Graphic Studio Residency Award. She was invited Artist in Residence at Eigse, Co. Carlow in 2008. Other residencies include Cill Rialaig and The Inishlacken Project, Co.Galway.
Una is a tutor in drawing and painting at the RHA School where she has developed a teaching module on Anatomy for Artists in association with RCSI.
She was a judge on both series of RTE’s Painting the Nation in 2016 and 2017.
Image: Una Sealy RHA, Stream, North Mayo II, exhibited in the 194th Annual Exhibition, 2024, Image courtesy of the artist.
