Liliane Puthod works in the style of an ad-hoc archaeologist. She excavates and displays her findings to reveal stories embedded in everyday consumables, whether found, repurposed or fabricated.
Working with sculpture, installation, drawing, and site-specific interventions, Puthod uses a comical graphic language to enliven these cultural artefacts, deconstructing the visual language of advertising into something more humorous, yet melancholic and uncanny. Her work reflects on the day to day use and value of objects and materials, considering what should be preserved, held, or contained based on how, when and why they have been made. In Puthod's work, the vessel becomes a metaphor for information travelling between relative histories and timescales. Combining industrial and crafted materials with traditional techniques such as stone carving, ceramic, wax modelling, and bronze casting, Puthod draws attention to the value of labour and commodification in post-fordist times. Her practice moves between a range of production sites and workplaces whether it is a factory plant, mechanic’s garage, retail store, or artist’s studio. Puthod often engages with specialists of many disciplines to bring different perspectives on labour, its relationship to the body, and the values that connect or undermine the handmade versus the machine-made.
Exhibitions (selection)
2026 upcoming_group show curated by Paul McAree, The Mill, Lismore Castle, Ireland
2026 upcoming_group show curated by Davey Moore, RHA Gallery, Dublin
2026 upcoming_Art au Centre, Lièges, Belgium
2025 tour de force, touring exhibition co-curated and co-produced with writer Ingrid Lyons, Ireland
2025 work wear blues, solo exhibition curated by Michael Hill at Weatherproof Gallery, Chicago
2024 Beep Beep, solo exhibition curated by Temple Bar Gallery and Studios for two off-site exhibitions at The Pumphouse, Dublin Port
2023 Hammerheads, group exhibition curated by Brenda McParland, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
2022 Night Shift, Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin
2021 Woman in the Machine, group exhibition curated by Emma Lucy O’Brien, VISUAL, Carlow
2019 How Long After Best Before, solo exhibition, Pallas Projects & Studios, Dublin
2019 Everything Must Go, solo exhibition, Ps2, Belfast
Awards (selection)
2026 upcoming_Artist residency, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2025 The Arts Council of Ireland Touring of Work Scheme
2025 The Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary
2024 The Arts Council of Ireland Project Award
2022-2025 Three year studio membership at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
2022 Artist residency, A Radical Plot, Irish Museum Modern Art, Dublin
2023 The Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary
2021 The Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
Press (selection)
2025 Leitrim Live, Marie Conboy: A road trip, a rhythm, and the art of letting go
2024 Frieze Review, Tom Lordan: Yuri Pattison and Liliane Puthod Revive a Disused Dublin Pumphouse
2024 Visual Arts Newsheet (VAN), Joanne Laws: Shortest Way Home
2024 Dublin Inquirer, Michael Lanigan: In the Docklands, a new art exhibition based around water, movement and journeys
2021 Visual Arts Newsheet (VAN), Ingrid Lyons: Night Shift
2021 The Royal Institute of Architecture of Ireland Magazine (RIAI), Banbha McCann: Welcome to Tomorrow
2020 Visual Arts Newsheet (VAN), Colin Darke: Dissolving Histories: An Unreliable Presence
liliane.puthod@gmail.com
