biography

Niamh Flanagan is an artist and Master Printer, based at Graphic Studio Dublin where she also worked from 2008 - 2025 as editioner, Programme Coordinator and Master Printer. She makes etchings, monoprints and collage works which explore themes of escape, loneliness and the search for utopias and space in our ever-connected worlds. Language, identity and belonging are researched through her practice, as well as our need for community and connection. She is interested in printmaking's myriad possibilities, both conceptual and technical, through the exploration of the matrix – which is something she investigates through her one-off collage pieces in particular.

She has exhibited widely nationally including at Clifden Arts Festival 2025, SO Fine Art Editions Dublin, Graphic Studio Gallery Dublin, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Mayo and regularly at the RHA Annual Open Submission. Internationally she has shown work with the Royal Society of Etchers and Painters (RE) London, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Print Prize, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm, Klaipeda Kulturel Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania, Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris, University of the Arts, Kyoto and Ireland House, Tokyo Japan 2025. Her work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland, the Office of Public Works, the British Library, and private collections nationally and internationally. In 2021 she was awarded the Graham Wilkinson Print Prize at the RHA Annual Open Submission Exhibition. She has taken part in residencies at Cill Rialaig Co. Kerry, Cló Ceardlann na sCnoic, Donegal, Lendava, Lithuania and Edinburgh Printmakers.