Zoë Dillon’s practice is concerned with the innate human habit of collecting. Recent work examines cross generational collecting and archiving. Dillon’s painting practice examines how these objects may bear witness to our lives, personal and familial histories and become fragments in forming current and historical identities. Dillon examines the drive to collect from beneficial collections to collecting outside the museological or official context and also collections that can be excessive, banal or frivolous. Dillon’s most recent work draws upon personal and familial collecting habits with a series work focusing on cropped portraits of youth beauty routines and products particularly prevalent with Gen Alpha And driven by social media trends.

Zoë Dillon is a painter originally from Galway, now living and working in County Wicklow, Ireland. Dillon trained originally in the legal profession and is now pursuing a full time career in painting. Dillon is currently studying for the Diploma in Painting and Drawing at the Royal Hibernian Academy School, accredited by Technical University Dublin.

Dillon recently won an award at the Artform Dunmore East Bucolica Exhibition 2024 and is currently exhibiting at Mount Congreve Art in the Garden Paint Waterford Exhibition and Courthouse Gallery Clare. She has also exhibited at the Royal Ulster Academy 141st and the 142nd Annual Exhibition 2022 and 2023 in the Ulster Museum Belfast, Inaugural Kilkenny Portrait Exhibition 2024, Dunamaise Arts Centre Group Exhibition 2024, shortlisted best in show Signal Arts Annual Open 2022, numerous ArtNetdlr Members Group Exhibitions, Mermaid Arts Twenty One Group Exhibition, Signal Arts Open 2023 and 2024, Lavit Gallery Winter Exhibition 2024 and Ranelagh Arts Summer and Winter Exhibitions 2024, Longlisted Jacksons Art Prize 2025.