Biography

Originally from Northern Ireland, Roisín McGuigan lives and works in Dublin. Her practice is an auto-ethnographic reflection on place informed by the reverberations of growing up near the Northern Irish Border considered in the wider context of pre/post-partition Ireland and its international relationships, explored through research, memory and anecdote and realised through painting, sculpture, print and text.

Roisín has an MFA from NCAD and has exhibited in venues at home and abroad including Crawford Municipal Gallery of Art, CCA Derry~Londonderry, RHA, Rua Red, Hun Gallery New York, Rugby Art Gallery & Museum UK, MART Dublin, VISUAL Carlow, and in Matera, Italy, as part of the 2019 European City of Culture Programme.  Roisín received the Fire Station Artists’ Studios Sculpture Practice Award in 2023, Graphic Studio Dublin’s Expanded Print Residency Award 2022-23 and the DeMo 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, Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust and Creative Ireland. Roisín was commissioned to make work as part of the Decade of Centenaries 2024 Programme and this year was selected to create a mural in Hungary which was commissioned by Project Arts Centre, Dublin and the City of Szombathely, and funded by the Dept of Foreign Affairs.

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