Orfhlaith Egan

Exploring memory, perception, and place, my practice draws on Irish folklore, mythology, and landscape to reveal hidden narratives within the natural world.

Rooted in painting, I transform physical canvases into digitally enhanced stills and GIFs, creating generative works that feel both ancient and electric. My original GIFs have received over 130 million views on GIPHY. Inspired by the landscapes of my home in Cornamona, Ireland, I capture the fleeting beauty of light, time, and emotion.

Through digital processes, these paintings evolve into glowing, layered compositions that extend beyond the limits of paint. Works such as Rise Up begin with a single painting and unfold into shifting digital forms, reflecting how identity and history fragment and reform.

My practice is also a personal ritual - an act of grounding through which I make sense of the world and shape meaning through image, light, and landscape. I’m drawn to the threshold between the organic and the digital, where past and present quietly converge.

Trinity College Dublin
B.A. History of Art

Art on Tezos x TEIA: Berlin Unique Ingredients 6-9 Nov 2025 Wilmersdorfer Str. 151, 10585 Berlin, Germany
Sound of Vision: Contemporary Visual Art with Sonic Reactions 2024 (Berlin, DE)
FORHALLA 2023 (Castlebar, IRE)
Ambivalent 2023 (Berlin, DE)
EQUILIBRIUM 2023 (Castlebar, IRE)
The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art 2023 (Online)
Atlantaquaria 2022 (Galway, IRE)
IN TOUCH: Art in the Age of Post NFT-ism 2022 (Berlin, DE)
XPLOIT x Orla 2022 (Cryptovoxels)
Lite-Haus Galerie & Projekt Raum 2022 (Berlin, DE)
Earth Day Clean NFT Art Exhibition 2021 (Cryptovoxels)
Venus of Metaverse: A Celebration of Women Creators in the Crypto Art Space 2021 (Cryptovoxels)
Future Art 2021 (Sydney, Aus)
Brittle/Fragile 2019 (Westport, IRE)
Love Letters to the Ocean 2019 (Berlin, DE)
13-10 Group Exhibition & Demonstration 2018 (Berlin, DE)
OpenAirGallery 2018 (Berlin, DE)
Beyond the Sea 2018 (Berlin, DE)
3 Painters Group Show 2017-18 (Berlin, DE)
Orfhlaith Egan: Paintings from the Mountains to the Lake
Atelier ARTACTA 2017 (Berlin, DE)