ABOUT THE ARTIST

 Niamh O’Connor is a Dublin born visual artist working from rural Co. Monaghan in non-objective abstraction, she is a painter, printmaker and sometimes sculptor, favoring acrylic, mixed media and encaustic, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is privately collected extensively. “TWENTY: TWENTY...vision”, is a series of new works that derive inspiration from lockdown, this entire collection sees O’Connor return to a pure painting practice, acrylic, mixed media on large canvas and paper, from reeds and rushes to revolt and resurgence, she has been inspired by her locked down limited movement, and global news stream, feeding into her subconscious, and expressed by her gestural marks and multi-layered approach. Delving into experiences of isolation and cocooning, abstracted lake bed walks, and critical social commentary, she expresses the juxtaposition between personal safety and solitude and the extending global unrest during this pandemic through her work, further expanding on her interest in asemic mark-making, stream of consciousness thinking, and the art of creative expressionism itself.