Niamh Flanagan - Dark Skies Winter Lights

Light Up - Draíocht's Building Projection Commissions 2021 continue with a brand new projection work created by Niamh Flanagan.

"For the Light Up Project I have created two etchings depicting snow-capped peaks that will loom large in the evenings outside Draíocht creating an otherworld for viewers to contemplate. The works will explore ideas of escape, adventure and both the futility and importance of impossible dreams." Niamh Flanagan

Niamh Flanagan's work explores the search for utopias in our worlds, and the restless desire to be somewhere else. She uses visual elements of the landscape around her, both urban and rural, internal and external, to describe this search for something that is perhaps unattainable. Flux, change and growth are central concepts to the work. The playful printed world of cities and mountains, forests and islands, suggests escape and isolation. But the world depicted in the prints is a volatile one too, which lies beyond our control, with its ever-changing skies, and strange fruit lurking beneath the surface.

Biog

Niamh Flanagan graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2002 with a 1st Class Honours in Fine Art Print and is now a member of Graphic Studio Dublin, where she also works as Master Printer and Programmes Manager. She has had solo shows at The Printmakers Gallery, Dublin, 2007 and an elsewhere place at Graphic Studio Gallery in 2012. Group exhibitions include Île d'Hiver | Winter Island at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Artist's Proof at the Chester Beatty Library Dublin, from islands to other seas shown at Graphic Studio Gallery 2016, Other Journeys at SO Fine Art Gallery, and Collision at the Law Society of Ireland. Her work has been selected for the RHA Annual Exhibition 2018, 2020 and 2021. Awards include Arts Council Mentorship Scheme, Travel and Training Award and grants from Culture Ireland. Residencies include Cill Rialiag Project, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Lindart International Artists' Colony, Lendava, Slovenia, 'Na Granicy | Where Borders Meet', Gorlice, Poland and Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland.