‘Moonbeams’, Oil on Linen 95cm x 95cm, Framed with solid Walnut & Purple corner spline, 2020

About

Hannah Ní Mhaonaigh creates paintings on linen and on various surfaces including found objects. The titling of her work is an essential part of Ní Mhaonaigh's process, which she considers as an attempt to grab hold of these abstracted elements by the tufts of their tails. The repetitive practice of overpainting and paring back leads to an experimental yet determined fuinneamh (energy) in her finished pieces, the ones that managed to make it. These abstract forms become almost an excavation of fictional artefacts or remains. Natural shapes become abstract symbols unearthed as parts, sections, and unknowingly pieces of the artist herself, harking back to something more primitive, something from the earth, the roots of things, she's digging.

Some recent exhibitions for Ní Mhaonaigh include; ‘Play Area’ Group Exhibition part of Abstracted Boundaries, IRE (2024) 'Push and Pull, Painting then and Now', Highlanes Gallery, IRE (2024) ‘Pink’ Olivier Cornet Gallery, IRE (2024) ‘HORSES’,Mermaid Art Centre, IRE, (2024) ‘Endlessnessnessness’,The Lab Gallery, IRE (2024) 'Small is Beautiful' 41st Edition, Cork Street, Flowers Gallery, London, ENG (2023) 'Island' collaboration with Ceadogán & Peter McVerry Trust, IRE, (2023) 'Rally,’ Glove Box Gallery, IRE, (2022) ‘Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland’ Flowers Gallery, ENG (2022) ‘Comme un lèger contretemps Cernay-Lès-Reims FR, (2022) ‘A stab in the dark’, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Solo, IRE, (2021)