List of Irish women artists

This is a list of women artists who were born in Ireland or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

A

 * Anne Acheson (1882–1962), sculptor
 * Mary Alment (1834–1908), landscape, portrait artist
 * Mary Arrigan (born 1943), illustrator, artist and novelist

B

 * Ethelwyn Baker (1899–1988), sculptor
 * Maude Mary Ball (1883–1969), painter and sculptor
 * Ethel Gresley Ball (1886–1959), painter and sculptor
 * Moyra Barry (1886–1960), flower painter
 * Rose Maynard Barton (1856–1929), painter
 * Mary Battersby (fl. 1801–1841), painter, naturalist
 * Frances Beckett (1880–1951), painter
 * Edith Anna Bell (1870–1929), sculptor
 * Dorothy Blackham (1896–1975), illustrator, painter, educator
 * Edith Blake (1846–1926), botanical illustrator, writer
 * Norma Borthwick (1862–1934), British artist, writer, Irish language activist
 * Alicia Boyle (1908–1997), landscape artist
 * Nicola Gordon Bowe (1948–2018), art historian, educator
 * Gretta Bowen (1880–1981), painter
 * Sarah Bowie (fl. 2010s), illustrator, author, cartoonist
 * Muriel Brandt (1909–1981), painter
 * Ruth Brandt (1936–1989), painter, educator
 * Melanie Le Brocquy (1919–2018), sculptor
 * Colleen Browning (1929–2003), realist painter
 * Laura Buckley (1977–2022), video and installation artist
 * Letitia Bushe (c. 1705/1710–1757), water painter, miniaturist
 * Mildred Anne Butler (1885–1941), painter

C

 * Margaret Callan (c.1817–c.1883), teacher, nationalist, writer, used the pseudonym Thornton MacMahon
 * Maeve Clancy, paper cut artist, illustrator
 * Ellen Creathorne Clayton (1834–1900), painter
 * Margaret Clarke (1888–1961), portrait painter
 * Anne Cleary (born 1965), installation and video artist
 * Susan Connolly (artist) (born 1976), contemporary artist
 * Amanda Coogan (born 1971), performance artist
 * Sylvia Cooke-Collis (1900–1973), painter
 * Catherine Teresa Cookson (fl. 1830s), botanical artist
 * Kathleen Cox (1904–1972), Irish artist, sculptor, mystic
 * Mia Cranwill (1880–1972), designer, metal artist
 * Dorothy Cross (born 1956), contemporary artist
 * Amelia Curran (1775–1847), portrait painter
 * Fanny Currey (1848–1917), horticulturalist and watercolour painter

D

 * Elinor Darwin (1879–1954), illustrator, engraver, portrait painter
 * Lilian Davidson (1879–1954), painter, writer
 * Kate Dobbin (1868–1955), watercolour artist
 * Phoebe Donovan (1902–1998), flower, landscape and portrait artist
 * Anne Donnelly (born 1932), painter
 * Susanna Drury (1698–1770), landscape painter

E

 * Frances Anne Edgeworth (1769–1865), botanical artist, memoirist
 * Diana Conyngham Ellis (1813–1851), botanical artist
 * Beatrice Elvery (1881–1970), stained-glass artist, painter

F

 * Marianne Fannin (1845–1938), botanical artist
 * Genieve Figgis (born 1972), contemporary painter
 * Kathleen Fox (1880–1963), painter, enamellist, stained glass artist

G

 * Catherine Gage (1815–1892), botanist, botanical and ornithological illustrator
 * Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955), stained glass artist
 * Evelyn Gleeson (1855–1944), embroidery, carpet, and tapestry designer
 * Carol Graham (born 1951), contemporary artist.
 * Eileen Gray (1879–1976), furniture designer, architect
 * Elizabeth Gray (1837–1903), painter, etcher, photographer
 * Beatrice Gubbins (1878–1944), watercolour artist
 * Althea Gyles (1868–1949), poet, painter, illustrator

H

 * Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876–1960), painter
 * Letitia Marion Hamilton (1878–1964), landscape painter
 * Marianne-Caroline Hamilton (1777–1861), artist, memoirist
 * Marie Hanlon (born 1948), painter
 * Alice Hanratty (born 1939), printmaker
 * Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941), painter
 * Gertrude Hartland (1865–1954), illustrator
 * Gabriel Hayes (1909–1978), sculptor
 * Mercedes Helnwein (born 1979), painter, writer, video artist
 * Grace Henry (1868–1953), Scottish landscape artist
 * Mary Balfour Herbert (1817–1893), watercolourist
 * Katie Holten (born 1975), contemporary artist
 * Helen Hooker (1905–1993), sculptor, portrait painter
 * Evie Hone (1894–1955), painter, stained glass artist

J

 * Alice Jacob (1862–1921), botanical illustrator, lace designer, design teacher
 * Joan Jameson (1892–1953), still-life, landscape and figure artist
 * Yvonne Jammet (1900–1967), landscape painter, sculptor
 * Mainie Jellett (1897–1944), painter
 * Debbie Jenkinson, illustrator and comics artist
 * Rachel Joynt (born 1966), sculptor

K

 * Harriet Kavanagh (1799–1885), artist, traveller, antiquarian
 * Frances Kelly (1908–2002), painter
 * Martha King (c.1803–1897), botanical artist
 * Alice Sarah Kinkead (1871–1926), painter

L

 * Elish Lamont (c.1800/1816–1870), miniaturist
 * Grania Langrishe (born 1934), botanical illustrator
 * Lady Hazel Lavery (1880–1935), artist
 * Mary Concepta Lynch (1874–1939), Irish nun and calligrapher

M

 * Gladys Maccabe (1918–2018), painter
 * Isa Macnie (1869–1958), croquet champion, cartoonist, suffragist and activist
 * Anne Madden (born 1932), painter
 * Anne Magill, painter, illustrator
 * Alice Maher (born 1956), multidisciplinary artist
 * Mary Manning (1853–1930), landscape artist, teacher
 * Sine MacKinnon (1901–1996), landscape artist
 * Kathleen Marescaux (1868–1944), painter
 * Sheila McClean (1932–2016), painter
 * Siobhan McDonald, multidisciplinary artist
 * Norah McGuinness (1901–1980), painter, illustrator
 * Yvonne McGuinness (born 1972), contemporary artist
 * Eva McKee (1890–1955), craftswoman and designer
 * Flora Mitchell (1890–1973), American-born Irish artist
 * Dorothy Molloy (1942–2004), poet and artist

O

 * Catherine Amelia O'Brien (1881–1963), stained glass artist
 * Florence Vere O'Brien (1854–1936), diarist, philanthropist, craftswoman
 * Geraldine O'Brien (1922–2014), botanical illustrator
 * Kitty Wilmer O'Brien (1910–1983), landscape artist
 * Nelly O'Brien (1864–1925), miniaturist, landscape artist, Gaelic League activist
 * Harriet Osborne O'Hagan (1830–1921), portrait artist
 * Helen Sophia O'Hara (1846–1920), watercolour artist
 * Bea Orpen (1913–1980), landscape and portrait painter, teacher
 * Catherine Isabella Osborne (1818–1880), artist, writer, patron

P

 * Aine Phillips (born 1965), performance artist, writer
 * Ellice Pilkington (1869–1936), women's activist and artist
 * Katherine Plunket (1820–1932), botanical illustrator
 * Caroline Pounds (fl. 1840–1880), watercolour artist
 * Rosamond Praeger (1867–1954), artist, sculptor, poet, writer
 * Kathy Prendergast (born 1958), artist, sculptor
 * Sarah Purser (1848–1943), stained glass artist

R

 * Mary Redmond (1863–1930), sculptor
 * Nano Reid (1900–1981), painter
 * Ethel Rhind (1877–1952), stained-glass and mosaic artist
 * Anne Rigney (born 1957), abstract artist, sculptor
 * Elizabeth Rivers (1903–1964), stained-glass, painter, engraver, illustrator
 * Florence Ross (1870–1949), artist

S

 * Caroline Scally (1886–1973), landscape artist
 * Susan Sex (born 1947), botanical artist
 * Estella Solomons (1882–1968), painter
 * Edith Somerville (1858–1949), writer, painter, illustrator, suffragist
 * Elizabeth Shaw (1920–1992), illustrator, children's book author
 * Everina Sinclair (1870–1966), woodworker and teacher
 * Niamh Sharkey, author and illustrator of children’s picturebooks
 * Camille Souter (1929–2023), painter
 * Stella Steyn (1907–1987), painter, illustrator
 * Sophia St John Whitty (1877–1924), woodcarver, teacher, cooperativist
 * Imogen Stuart (1927–2024), German-Irish sculptor
 * Mary Swanzy (1882–1978), landscape and genre artist
 * Mary Rankin Swan (1865–1944), portrait artist

T

 * Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852–1936), illustrator, painter, embroiderer
 * Helen Mabel Trevor (1831–1900), painter
 * Alys Fane Trotter (1862–1961), poet, artist

V

 * Dairine Vanston (1903–1988), landscape artist
 * Lilla Vanston (1870–1959), sculptor, portrait painter

W

 * Sophia Wellbeloved (born 1940), sculptor
 * Sophia St John Whitty (1877–1924), woodcarver
 * Daphne Wright (born 1963), visual artist
 * Gladys Wynne (1876–1968), watercolourist

Y

 * Anne Yeats (1919–2001), painter, stage designer
 * Lily Yeats (1866–1949), embroiderer
 * Mabel Young (1889–1974), artist