Niamh McGuinne, a Dublin based visual artist, has an MA in Fine Art Conservation and an MFA from NCAD (2020). She is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin since 2010 and currently serves on the board of directors. Recent shows include ‘Geomancy’ IMPACT Bristol (2022), ’you breathe differently down here’, Draíocht (2022), ‘Gormworm’, Tapir Takt Gallery, Berlin (2022) and ‘Expanded’, Graphic Studio Dublin Gallery (2022). As a member of S:TAC Shell/Ter Artist Collective she will present ‘Shelter’ in the National Gallery of Ireland and Draíocht Blanchardstown in 2023. She is a recipient of an Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award for 2021 and has received a 2023 Centre Culturel Irlandais residency in Paris. She is a member of The Darkroom and her film work has featured in the Poetry Project (2013) in Merciful Hour film screening (2019) and Homeland Projections at Barcelona Loop festival and Damer House in 2021 and 2022.
McGuinne’s practice in visual art combines print, sculpture and film. She creates interactive installations, inhabitable or often wearable, whose function is not initially clear. Within this ambiguity there is a suggestion of refuge from the unknown and invisible overload of the everyday world, where we are bombarded with signs, signals and information. The embodiment of psychological experience and the nature of somatic response is an underlying theme in my work, addressing issues concerning how the body absorbs, holds and disguises illness. A background in fine art conservation also informs her approach whereby mechanisms of deterioration acting on/in the artefact mirror this assimilated trauma and notions of perfection intermingle with questions regarding deviance, acceptance and distorted perception. In part influenced by the immersive nature of this background, she presents an invitation to participate – either physically or imaginatively.
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