Niamh Mc Cann

Niamh McCann's diverse and playful practice, which includes sculpture, installation, painting and video, explores philosophical riddles/conundrums through seemingly random visual juxtapositions and spatial relationships, looking toward themes of travel, globalization and urbanization within very particular social and political contexts. Using everyday objects and images from the contemporary urban environment, McCann makes visible poetry of chance connections, whimsy and paradox.  McCann works with found materials, industrial processes and situations - given logos, re-appropriated signs, newspaper montages - that she alters and then reconfigures to create works as alternates scenarios or landscapes to question the quotidian means.  In February 2009 she had a solo exhibition titled Purlieu in the Green On Red Gallery. She is currently an artist in residence in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and has been awarded the HIAP artist residency in Helsinki for 2009.



Niamh McCann, Splice 7 (Contentious Gathering of Condolence, Celebration and Protest), 2009 Newspaper, acrylic paint, watercolour, paint, pencil, silkscreen print, 49 x 65.5 cm