​Niamh McGoldrick-McGrath

I am currently studying Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. 
My work examines the relationship between people and land. It is driven by the belief that the land shapes us as much as we shape it, and that understanding this is essential to our growth. In a world where our connection to nature has been diminished, my work reflects a desire to rekindle with the natural world by fostering a deeper relationship with the land around us.   
My artwork reflects my journey through landscape, using a process of collection. Working with multiple mediums, I immerse myself in land across the world, collecting elements from each area, seeking to display the sense of picking up pieces of your identity from each landscape that you pass through in your lifetime. 
I enjoy using  cyanotype and polaroid, two environmentally reactive mediums determined and directed by light, temperature, and weather to display my immersion in landscape. In doing so, I create works in collaboration with each area that i visit, resulting in each photograph and print being unique to the environment it was created in.  
I use sewing throughout my work as a way of drawing, to display figures, topography, and texture to examine how the land we live in, occupy, and pass through plays a significant role in forming who we are.