Niamh Hannaford creates playful, uneasy installation and performances. Mirroring the dominant extraction economy and the industrialization of resources, she creates temporal, active sculptures which require cyclical maintenance and endure decay and loss.

Niamh's work is synchronically joyous and laden with crisis. Her work is complex, yet accessible, irreverent, yet heartfelt. A demonstration of that which seeks personal maintenance through play. Enacting daily joys and environmental glimmers as - a breath - a stretch - a break - for those tense of body.  

Recent achievements include, milksop, solo exhibition in The Mart Gallery, Dublin (2024). Artist in Residence, National Maritime Museum, London (2023). Artists in Residence Ateliê Alê, São Paulo, Brazil (2022). Y.P.C.E Artist in Residency, RuaRed Gallery, Dublin (2021). Duo show, STRIKE YOUR OFFENDED SENSES: A modest exhibition of artistic frivolity, Pallas Projects, Dublin (2021).


Niamh is currently pursuing an MFA in Goldsmiths University, London, degree show July 2025.




Education

2022 - 25

2006 - 10

2023 - 24



Solo  Exhibitions

2024


Duo Exhibitions

2021


Residencies

2023

2022

2021

2020


Selected Group Exhibitions

2023


2021


2020



2019

2018



2017

2016



2015



2014


2013

2012



Selected Talks & Performances

2023


2022

2021


2020


2019

2017

2016



MFA, Goldsmiths University, London.
The Benevolent Society, Goldsmiths Masters Scholarship, and Gilbert Bayas Trust.
B. Des Metalwork Design, N.C.A.D., Dublin.

Junior Fellow, Graduate Diploma in Art, Goldsmiths University, London.




milksop, The Mart Gallery, Dublin.    




Strike your offended senses, Pallas Projects Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.




National Maritime Museum, Artists in Residence, London.

Ateliê Alê, Artist in Residence, São Paulo, Brazil.

Y.P.C.E. Artist in Residence, RuaRed Gallery, Tallaght, Dublin.

Creative Spark Print Residency, Creative Spark, Dundalk.




A Graziers Grotto,
Tanners Hill, London.
Taste the Difference Loess Collective, Hypha Studios, London.

191st Royal Hibernian Acadamy Annual,
R.H.A, Dublin, Ireland.
Together Again, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, Ireland.

Winter Open,
The Courthouse Gallery, Clare, Ireland.
Hold On, An Táin Arts Center, Dundalk, Ireland.
Re-vision Festival, Accidental Theatre, Belfast, Ireland.

189th Royal Hibernian Acadamy Annual, R.H.A., Dublin, Ireland.

The Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
Pairs, Rare Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Rednesness, The Copperhouse Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

On The Pop, Fringe Festival, Studio Yum Yum, Dublin, Ireland.

Contemporary Jewellery Exchange, Online exhibition.
FEAR, Peachy, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland.

Home, Art Jewellery Network, Belfast, Ireland.
Home, Convoi Exceptionnel, Taidebunkkeri, Finland.
Made, Spacecraft Centre, Belfast, Ireland.

Grosvenor Studios, The MART, Dublin, Ireland.
Collaborations, Smock Alley, Dublin, Ireland.

Curb Your Carrie Bradshawism, The Mart, Dublin, Ireland.

Twenty Twelve, the Craft and Design Collective, Belfast, Ireland.





Conference of Play, Speaker, National Maritime Museum, London.
Gravel, Hartslane, London.

Fear The Fool, Residency Performance, São Paulo, Brazil.

Creative Chats, hosted by Mart Gallery in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Strike Your Offended Senses, series of off site performance, Dublin, Ireland.

Revision Festival Belfast, Accidental Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Culture Night Blackrock, Dundalk, Louth, Ireland.

RHA X: Roland Mouret x Dragana Jurišić, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland.

Peachy for Repeal, The MART Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

Project Talks, Art Jewellery Network, Belfast, Ireland.