Wayfinding Roisín McGuigan

Wayfinding | Roisín McGuigan

Roisín McGuigan’s practice is an auto-ethnographic reflection on place, phenomena and the reverberations of growing up near the Northern Irish border – a complicated and unruly place explored through research, memory and anecdote, and realised through paint, print, sculpture and text.

In this exhibition Roisín combines references to the history of the linen industry, political conflict, the Ordnance Survey, and how Mayo and Armagh are inextricably linked through these, in a range of new and recent works that incorporate materials such as linen, flax, hessian and linseed oil.

About the Artist:
Originally from County Armagh, McGuigan lives and works in Dublin. A graduate of NCAD, Burren College of Art, and Turps Art School, London, she was a recipient of a Fire Station Artists’ Studios Sculpture Practice Award for 2023, Graphic Studio Dublin’s Expanded Print Residency Award 2022-23 and the CCA Reciprocal Residency at Kaunas Artists’ House in Lithuania for 2024. She has also received bursaries from The Arts Council, Dublin City Council, Kerry County
Council and Creative Ireland.

Her work has been exhibited in venues at home and abroad including the RHA, Rua Red, VISUAL Carlow, Crawford Municipal Gallery of Art, Hun Gallery in New
York, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, UK, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry, MART Dublin, and in Matera, Italy, as part of the 2019 European City of Culture Programme.