Serena Caulfield Irish, b. 1985

Serena Caulfield (b.1985) is an artist based by the sea in County Wexford. Describing her paintings as “mashup-allegories engendered with the frivolities and traumas of our time”, Caulfield’s sources range from classical artworks to children's drawing books, aural histories to local myths. Disobeying a linear art history while reclaiming it somehow in the present, she repurposes the power of historical art, both visually and conceptually, imbuing the anachronisms of the past with the attitudes of the present. 

Caulfield has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland including exhibitions at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Wexford Arts Centre and Luan Gallery, Athlone. In 2021 her shortlisted work for the Zurich Portrait Prize was exhibited in the National Gallery of Ireland and the Crawford Gallery, Cork. She is a recipient of The Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary, Platform 31 Artist Award and Arts Council Agility Award. Her work is held in the Wexford Co. Council collection and in private and corporate collections both nationally and internationally.