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Niamh Hughes

niamhhughesart@gmail.com niamhhughesart.com
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About the member

Niamh Hughes is a self-producing, undisciplined artist based between Meath and Cork City. Her practice involves painting, costume, and experimental moving image. Hughes received a first-class honours BA in Applied Materials: Textile Art and Artefact from NCAD, with a special commendation for her thesis. Niamh has worked in various creative roles alongside her practice, such as set and prop fabrication, project and workshop facilitation, illustration and costume design.

Education

  • Kickstart Apprenticeship Programme at the Edinburgh Open Workshop, March – September 2022
  • The National College of Art & Design, Dublin – BA (First Class HONS) in FA Textile Art and Artefact, Sept. 2017 – July 2020
  • ICFE, Dublin – Level 5 in Costume Design, Hair & Makeup, Sept. 2020 – 2021
Exhibitions

2024

  • CineSalon Experimental Film Festival, Cork, September.
    KFEST
  • Killorglin, Co. Kerry, June.

2023

  • LeithLate Festival at the Settlement Projects, June – July.
  • The Witches Dance – Sett Studios, April – May.
  • A Hint of Salón – EMBASSY Members Show, February – March.
  • When All is Dust, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, January.

2022

  • KFEST 2022, Killorglin, Co. Kerry, June.
  • Easter Exhibition at SIXFOOT GALLERY, Glasgow, April – May.

2021

  • SURVEYOR 2021 Exhibit, The Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, Nov. – Dec.
  • CIRCUIT Arts Festival, Galway City, October.
  • KFEST 2021, Killorglin, Co. Kerry, October.

2019

  • PAPERCUT, Solo Exhibition at The Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath, May.
  • Thro’ the sunny flowers the bee-wings drone, The Gallery Listoke, Drogheda June – Sept.
Residency

Youth Bursary Programme Recipient and resident at the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, March 2022 – January 2023

Niamh
Hughes

My artworks operate like surreal diary entries. They’re created impulsively, responding to fleeting and indistinct thoughts. They help me to understand how and why I take up space in this world. I channel horror, absurdism, and humour while immersing the viewer into a phantasmagoric expression of my fears, anxieties, and passions. In my video piece Small Seeds to Grow, Large Pots to Fill, we follow a bug-eyed woman as she laments her dying plants through song. Within these strange and melodic musings, she realises that her own self-destructive tendencies are the roots of her unhappiness. This sends her on a deeper, existential spiral – expressed through a sequence of death-metal scored stop-motion. Completely unravelled, she rebuilds herself through thorough self-reflection and poppy, syncopated beats. A similarly macabre humour is employed throughout my large-scale paintings, which often accompany my video work. I choreograph bizarre and abnormal postures within saturated colour to reflect on spiralling introspections and social issues.

Niamh Hughes
Loudmouth
2020
Niamh Hughes
Silly Goose Girl
2024
Niamh Hughes
Blind-Drunk & Legless
2020
Niamh Hughes
Squirt
2024

Sample-Studios CLG is a non-profit organisation, incorporated as a company, limited by guarantee and not having a share capital.
Sample-Studios Ltd. is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Council, Rethink Ireland, Community Foundation Ireland, Business to Arts, and Cathedral Credit Union.

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