Maria Simonds-Gooding

Maria Simonds-Gooding is celebrated as one of Ireland’s foremost painters and printmakers to have emerged since the 1960s. Her work, which has been exhibited internationally, is represented in many public and private collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Born in India in 1939, she studied at the National College of Art, Dublin, Le Centre de Peinture, Bruxelles, Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, UK from 1962 – 1968 and has lived and worked in Kerry since 1947. She was elected a member of Aosdána in 1981 and was elected full membership of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2012.