Aleana Egan
Kerlin Gallery is pleased to present a three-person booth by Aleana Egan, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and Liliane Tomasko at Independent 2025.
selected works
Aleana Egan
trace element, 2025
mixed media on canvas with solid American white oak and linen mount
60 x 47 x 6.5 cm / 23.6 x 18.5 x 2.6 in framed
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
The Muses IV, 2025
Jacquard tapestry, wool, cotton
Edition of 5 + 2AP
200 x 154 cm / 78.7 x 60.6 in
Liliane Tomasko
Shapeshifter (reveling) 2024
acrylic and acrylic spray on aluminum
193 x 177.8 cm / 76 x 70 in
about the artists
Aleana Egan
b. 1979, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland
Working with sculpture, painting and film, Aleana Egan engenders psychological states through enigmatic arrangements of objects and forms. A meandering, sensuous line is carried from her sculptures into her paintings, populated by fragmentary shapes that hint at solid forms or gesture towards movement. Creating atmospheric shifts that feel open-ended, or in a state of flux, Egan articulates a distinct worldview infused by literary, cinematic, and architectural references as well as memories imprinted deep in the psychic landscape.
Aleana Egan has exhibited at Sculpture Center, New York; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunsthalle zu Kiel; Landesmuseum Münster; The Drawing Room and Jerwood Space, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery and IMMA, Dublin, and the Berlin Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Material Flux, a two-person exhibition with Isabel Nolan at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda (2024); Lismore Castle Arts, Co Waterford (2024); Kerlin Gallery (2023); Void, Derry (2022); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2021).
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain
b. 1978, Clare, Ireland
Lives and works in Cork, Ireland
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain is an Irish artist working with film, computer-generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. Ní Bhriain’s work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene. These intertwined subjects are approached through an associative use of narrative and a deeply crafted visual language that verges on the surreal. She sidesteps directive positions and familiar binaries, exposing instead the layers of ambiguity and contradiction embedded in these fraught issues. The resulting worlds she creates are at once idiosyncratic, irresistible and unsettling.
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s work has been shown widely internationally, at venues including Broad Museum, Michigan; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Hammer Museum, LA; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France; the 16th Lyon Biennale and the 3rd Lahore Biennale. Current and forthcoming exhibitions include The Dream Pool Intervals, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (Solo, 27 March – 28 September 2025); Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland (Solo, 14 June – 24 August); and Programmed Universes, MAC Lyon, France (Group, 7 March – 13 July). Recent solo exhibitions include An Experiment with Time, Kunsthal Gent, Belgium (2024); Kerlin Gallery (2023); CCA Glasgow (2022). Public collections include Dallas Museum of Art; MAC Lyon; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Trinity College Dublin; and The Arts Council of Ireland.
Liliane Tomasko
b. 1967, Zurich, Switzerland
Lives and works in London, UK
Liliane Tomasko’s abstract paintings employ a distinctive, bold lyricism and assertive sense of colour. The artist began her investigation of the human psyche in the domestic sphere, using the intimate textures of our lives to open a gateway into the nocturnal realm of sleep and dreaming. Tomasko’s approach to abstraction is rooted, therefore, in the physical realm but ultimately transcends it. Fusing material observation with intuition and association, the artist produces vigorous, imaginative expressions of familiar environments and psychological states. Intense colour, subtle tone, shadow, and painterly gesture allow space to come in and out of focus, oscillating between clarity and obscurity and emulating the atmospheric power of dreams and memories.
Tomasko’s current/upcoming solo exhibitions include Liliane Tomasko: The Psyche of the Portrait. Tomasko meets Bonnard, van Dongen, Paolozzi, and Auerbach, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield Museums, Sheffield, UK (24 May – 12 October 2025). Recent solo exhibitions include Twofold, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2024); The Artist’s Eye, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Name me not, CAB Burgos, Spain (both 2023); S P E L L O F T H E W O O D, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda; Evening Wind, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York, USA (both 2022); and Morpheus, Kunstmuseum Kloster unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany (2021). She has also exhibited at Château la Coste, Aix-en-Provence; Hôtel des Art, Toulon; ROCA Rockland Center for the Arts, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; Lowe Art Museum, Miami and Museo MATE, Lima.
