Alison Byrne

  • Alison Bryne & Bronagh Conroy

    Fishwife With A Knife [Detail]

  • Fishwife With A Knife

    Fishwife With A Knife

  • Alison Bryne & Bronagh Conroy

    Fishwife With A Knife [Detail]

  • Alison Bryne & Bronagh Conroy

    Fishwife With A Knife [Detail]

  • Hidden Homeless

  • Alison Byrne - You're So Brave, 2022

    You're So Brave

  • Alison Bryne & Bronagh Conroy

    Fishwife With A Knife [Detail]

  • Alison Byrne

    Eye

  • Alison Byrne - Hidden Homeless

    Hidden Homeless

  • Alison Byrne - Hidden Homeless

    Hidden Homeless

  • Alison Byrne - Dr. Jane Goodall

    Dr. Jane Goodall

  • Alison Bryne & Bronagh Conroy

    Fishwife With A Knife

Resident Artist:

July 14th - 27th, 2025

  • Alison Byrne (b. 1985) is an award-winning artist, educator, and activist specialising in glass design. A graduate of Wolverhampton College of Art (BA) and Bournemouth and Poole College (Distinction in Hot Glass), she founded WildBird Studio, where she has created copper foil stained glass for the past eight years. Alison’s recent work pushes boundaries with techniques like ceramic decals, glass painting, and screen printing, exploring narrative imagery on glass. Dedicated to her craft and sustainability, Alison merges traditional skills with innovative practices to create impactful, thought-provoking work. Some of Alison's recent works include 'Fishwife with a Knife' a reimagining of the Molly Malone statue, critiquing tourist interaction, ‘Power To The People’ which celebrates the spirit of collective action and the profound impact of grassroots movements and 'Hidden Homeless' an arrangement of glass houses portraying people of all walks of life who are struggling with the housing insecurity.

  • Alison Byrne CV

  • Alison’s Website

Exploring Home, Housing, & Belonging…

During her residency at Mulranny Arts, glass artist Alison Byrne will build on an evolving body of work that explores themes of home, housing, and belonging, filtered through the lens of Irish mythology and contemporary social realities. With an artistic practice in stained glass, fused glass, and flameworking, Alison will use this time to research and refine new visual techniques. Her primary focus will be on the application of imagery to glass through screen printing and ceramic decals, developing a distinctive style that merges folklore, iconography, photography and drawing. The work developed during the residency will inform a new installation planned for Sculpture in Context 2025, titled 'Shrine to the housing Gods'.