Ayelet Lalor

Ayelet is an award winning Dublin based visual artist. Born in 1974, she studied at Grennan Mills Craft School, Glasgow School of Art, and NCAD, graduating with a BA (1996), and MA(2009).

The strong female figure is at the core of her work. Ayelet grew up surrounded by women, and was drawn to the female figure as a constant muse. Her sculpture began as the 3D manifestation of her childhood drawings, and colourful decorative embellishment dominated her early ceramic work. This was her form of emotional articulation, finding an ease of expression in clay that she did not find in other media. She created a world of fantasy and want, of society and behaviour, a response to the world she saw around her, which she couldn’t express through words. As the words have come, so too has the depth of storytelling. The ambition of her practice has expanded over the years to include life-size heads and busts in various scales and disciplines, mixed-media, cement, bronze, found objects, painting and printmaking. She frequently draws on memories for inspiration using extravagant headdress as a vehicle to tell stories, utilising the language of 18th century adornment and from classicism, the concept of the broken figure. Headwear has been used thro...

2019 Post-grad Cert , Trinity College, Dublin
Design-thinking for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,
2009 MA, National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Ceramic Sculpture
2008 Florence Academy of Art, Italy, Figure painting in oils Master-class workshop
1996 Honours BA, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ceramic Design
1995 Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, Erasmus exchange,
1992 Honours Certificate, Grennan Mills Craft School, Co KIlkenny

2026 West Cork Creates - Cnoc Bui Gallery - Let the Land Speak, Union Hall
2026 Dunlavin Arts festival - Midsummer garden - outdoor sculpture exhibition
2026 Uillinn – West Cork Arts Centre, members exhibition
2026 Connections - 3 person show, Blue House gallery, June 2026
2025 Even in Darkest Times, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin
2025 Sculpture in Context, (Award winner,) National Botanical Gardens, Dublin
2025/2024 Hermione, Alexander College, ( group show)
2025 Uillinn Members and Friends Open, West Cork Arts Centre,
2024 Patrick Ghilbaud Art Auction with Cill Railaig Arts Centre
2024 Tuckmill Gallery Charity Exhibition, The Moat Theatre, Naas
2024 Art Source, Art Fair, RDS, Dublin
2024 China Culture and Craft fair, Hangzhou, China
2024 Cairde Visual, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo ( group show)
2024/22 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Open Exhibition, RUA, Belfast
2024 Blue House Gallery, Three person ceramics show,
2014/21/22/23 Sculpture in Context, ( Award winner 2022) National Botanical Gardens, Dublin
2023 Ceramics Ireland Juried show, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
2022/23/24 Bloom + Montenotte Gardens Exhibition with the Kildare Gallery
2022 Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland, Untold Artists Stories - Graphica Creativa,
16th Internatio...