Moran graduated with a BA in Fine Art Printmaking from the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2001 and is now working from the Leinster Printmakers Studio in Clane, County Kildare.
Moran uses collagraph and screenprinting combined with painting and drawing, thereby producing monotypes (once-off unique prints). Her work is spontaneous and quirky and is drawn from her childhood memories and dreams of dance, movement and swimming. Her compositions incorporate elements of abstraction and figurative representation, allowing for greater freedom of expression.
"In the upper gallery, Niamh Moran's monoprints conjure up a world of childhood. There is an agreeably easy-going quality to her evocation of the magic of such apparently mundane activities as swimming, running and playing. She skilfully captures the imagination of a child, as the world is experienced in terms of pleasures, mysteries and parameters imposed by adult diktat. Through repetition and overlapping, her images build into a cumulative and consistent narrative, like a memory of summer holidays." - Aidan Dunne, Irish Times