Jacinta Monks

Visual Artist

Jacinta Monks is a visual artist living and working in Sutton, Dublin.

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She draws inspiration from the dilemma of the human condition. Beauty and Decay, Absence and Presence, Greed, Displacement...these themes are constant companions in her stream of consciousness. 

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Jacinta studied life drawing, painting and anatomy at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, and at the National College of Art and Design, C.E.A.D. part-time, while working. She honed her figurative skills under Max Ginsberg's supervision in his bi-weekly online classes (2020-2022), and attended further studies in person in the Arts Students League, New York (2023). Jacinta's primary influences are Freud, Bacon, Repin, Courbet, and O'Keefe.

More recently, Jacinta has been working to combine her study of literature with her art practice. She studied French and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, and completed an M.Phil (Research Masters) thesis in French Pre-Enlightenment History of Ideas (1664-1729).