Zoë Dillon’s practice is concerned with the innate human habit of collecting and how this informs identity. Recent work examines the drive to collect the excessive, banal or frivolous across different generations. Dillon’s most recent work draws upon current trends among ever younger consumers of skincare and beauty products and the dissemination of targeted, aspirational beauty narratives via social media. Her practice has been concerned with a visual interrogation into the phenomenon of influencer culture, youth consumerism and the rise of ‘Sephora Kids’. Paintings and drawings have been weaved together from social media and television ‘stills’ to exaggerate and zoom in on the processes of current beauty enhancement routines. Working both in painting and drawing, this body of work is influenced both by the imagery and the semi-fictional colour palette of the advertising language used by the cosmetic industry and the ’pinkification’ of product marketing to this generation. The paintings mirror the scale of screens through which these messages are disseminated. Larger works on paper research the broader scope of online beauty influencing and hair routines.

Zoë Dillon is 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 and drawing. She is currently studying for the Diploma in Painting and Drawing at the Royal Hibernian Academy School, accredited by Technical University Dublin.

Dillon won an award at the Artform Dunmore East Bucolica Exhibition 2024 and is currently exhibiting in the Hunt Museum inaugural Group Exhibition. She has also exhibited in Mount Congreve, Art in the Garden, Paint Waterford Exhibition and the Summer Group Exhibition at Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare 2025. She has previously 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 and 2025,  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 and 2025, Artform Dunmore Winter Exhibition 2025, RHA xTCD Student Group Exhibition Packing Problems, RHA Resolution Student Exhibitions 2024 and 2025. Longlisted Jacksons Art Prize 2025.