Sorcha McNamara
2025
Sorcha McNamara is a visual artist based in Mayo, Ireland, and sometimes elsewhere. Her practice engages with deconstructive methods of painting, framing, language, and image-making, often expressing these methods through the means of site-responsive installation and a sense of material resourcefulness.
Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Echo/Locate, Linenhall Arts Centre (2025), Fathomless Arms, Ballina Arts Centre (2023), (dis)attachments, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo (2022) and Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin (2022). Selected recent group exhibitions include VISUAL Carlow (2024), Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2024) and The LAB, Dublin (2023). Sorcha has previously undertaken residencies at Leitrim Sculpture Centre (2024), Zaratan Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon (2024), Totaldobze Art Centre, Riga (2022), and Tangent Projects, Barcelona (2021). Her practice has been jointly supported through the Arts Council of Ireland and Mayo County Council Arts Office. She holds an MA in Art + Research Collaboration from IADT Dún Laoghaire (2024) and a BA in Painting from Limerick School of Arts & Design (2019).