Julianne Guinee is an Irish figurative painter whose work examines how women and girls learn, perform and resist the roles assigned to them. Working in oil, she stages psychologically charged domestic scenes in which familiar objects, gestures and rituals acquire an uneasy symbolic weight. Drawing upon the traditions of figurative painting, Guinee uses beauty as a point of entry into paintings shaped by tension, ambiguity and dark humour.

 

Based in Buttevant, County Cork, Guinee has worked as a full-time artist since 2019. Her work was selected for the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition in 2024, 2025 and 2026. In 2025, she appeared on Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year and was awarded the Accenture Women on Walls commission to create a major group portrait of eight pioneering women for permanent display at University College Cork. In 2026, she presented her first solo exhibition, Boxed In, at the Laneway Gallery.