Niamh McCann is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. Her interest is in the interweaving of fact and fiction, the overlapping layers of history and fable that are contained within the cultural and physical structures we construct. McCann works by drawing together different reference points and distilling them into a kind of sculptural poetry.
McCann presented the solo exhibition ‘Furtive Tears’ in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in 2018/19. 2019 also saw the launch of the public work ‘IMMRAM Pavilion/Mother’s Lament’ on the grounds of the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life.
Other solo exhibitions include ‘La Perruque (Protest Song)’ at MAC Belfast and ‘Just Left of Copernicus’, Visual Carlow.
Group exhibitions include; ‘Future Perfect’, Rubicon-Projects Brussels, ‘Changing States’, BOZAR, Belgium, ‘Time Out of Mind: Works from the IMMA Collection’, ‘Twenty’ at the Irish Museum of Modern Art; ‘In Other Words’, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; ‘this little bag of dreams’, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and ‘Without-Boundarie’s, Wäinö Attonen, Museum of Art, Finland.
The artist is recipient of various Arts Council of Ireland awards, and fellowships at Cemeti Arthouse, Indonesia; HIAP, International Artists' Residency, Helsinki, Finland, URRA Artist Residency, Argentina and of Perspective and EV+A exhibition awards.
Her work is represented in the following collections: Irish Museum of Modern Art, the OPW, Limerick City Gallery, Swansea City Council, The London Institute, Hiscox Collection, London.
Photo credit: Aisling McCoy