Niamh McGuinne

Niamh McGuinne is a Dublin based visual artist, and MFA graduate of NCAD (2020). Her practice combines print, sculpture, film and installation. The embodiment of psychological experience and the nature of physical response are important and recurring themes in her practice where she focusses on the interplay between fragility and resilience, ease and discomfort, temporality and permanence. These concepts are informed by her conservation background. She holds an MA in Fine Art Conservation and currently works in the National Gallery of Ireland where she has developed a deep appreciation for the transformative processes of materials over time.

Her solo shows ‘Carapace’ (2023) in the Highlanes Drogheda and ‘ Sojourn’ (2024) in Rathfarnham Castle addressed the symbolic exploration of the body as a shell – in which to develop and how time and growth are marked and interpreted. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and also as a member of Shell/Ter Artist Collective and MIDDEN. Awards include a Visual Arts Bursary in 2021, Centre Culturel Irlandais artist in residence in 2023 and is an artist in residence with the School of Organic Chemistry in TCD where chromophoric materials and how they can be used to mimic biological tissue is the subject of her research.