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I work as a visual artist from my studio in Naas, Co. Kildare. In my work I play with the notion of dreams and reality, blurring the boundaries. My characters and buildings can float and fly through their environments, forming a narrative in my work. Printmaking was my medium of choice for many years since leaving college as it really allowed for rich line and layering. The whole process of printmaking is something that has always appealed to me. The moment the paper was lifted from the plate was always the most exciting! Colour and line is very important to me. I utilise the techniques of drypoint, collograph, drawing and painting. Recently I have been working more with inks and colour pencil. I try to create something magical from the mundane. I’m currently working on illustrations for a children’s book. My son Oliver is autistic and I’m exploring sensory processing through the work for the book in which the main character is also autistic. After a gap in my own practice, I’m really happy to be back working. I feel my style has developed and changed and I find it very exciting. For me simplicity and spontaneity are very important and go hand in hand. I love to explore colour and line though mixed media and I hope that the combination of the figurative and the abstract make my compositions appealing. I want to evoke childhood hopes where the world is still magical, where colour is vibrant, and dreams are alive.
Niamh Moran 2024.
Born in Dublin, Niamh Moran now resides and works as a visual artist and illustrator from her studio in Naas, Co Kildare. She has a BA in Fine Art from Dublin Institute of Technology and an M.Phil in the History of Irish art from Trinity College. Her work has been selected for many prestigious exhibitions, including the RHA annual open submission (on four occasions)including last years 195th and the upcoming 196th Annual, as well as the Eigse Carlow Open and The Hunt Museum inagural open Submission. Moran has exhibited widely throughout the country in many group exhibitions as well as in solo shows. Her most recent was 'Chlorine Dreams' at Fráma, Naas in November 2025. Her work forms part of numerous private collections as well as public collections including The Office of Public works, The Revenue Commissioners, Fingal County Council, The Rotunda Hospital, Kildare Municipal Collection and VHI. Her work has also been purchased in Adams Auctioneer’s Contemporary Irish Art Auction. Niamh works as an art teacher in Youthreach for the Department of Education. She also worked as a swimming coach and swim teacher for a long number of years.
“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, Art Critic, The Irish Times.
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