Niamh Flanagan


Website: www.niamhflanagan.com

Instagram: @neevusfl


Statement


My work explores utopias and other worlds, the restless desire to be somewhere else, and both the futility and the importance of impossible dreams. Drawing from memory, visual notes and literature, my prints depict an inner landscape, one which reflects elements of the world around me. The motif of the house or dwelling space is central to my work. Our perceptions of houses, dwelling or shelter can shape our thoughts, our dreams and our memories.

There is a dreamlike quality to my work, that I hope allows the viewer a space in which to ponder. With my own hectic work and home life, I certainly feel the need for dreaming in between the deadlines and the drop-offs. Sometimes the prints veer closer to abstraction, with shapes and colour suggesting a mood and a feeling. It is important to me that there is an ambiguity there, so the viewer is free to project their thoughts onto the work.