Siobhan McNutt is a visual artist based in Galway, Ireland. Her art practice focuses on mark making and painting using ink, watercolour and acrylic paint as well as solid mediums such as graphite and charcoal.
Siobhan McNutt is a visual artist based in Galway.
Siobhan’s art practice focuses on mark making using combined materials such as ink, watercolour, acrylic, graphite, pen and charcoal. Her work employs drawing, painting, collage and printmaking processes to infer and describe the movement of the three states of matter (solid, liquid and gas) as well as some of the formations they take on such as sea, land and rock.
She is particularly interested in looking at the spaces in which natural forms and man-made structures meet, and how both occupy positive space and create negative space. Through her practice, Siobhan explores our deep connection with the natural world and how we experience these spaces. At the same time, her work seeks to experiment with the material differences between ink and acrylic paint, as well as solid mediums such as graphite and charcoal, by displaying and contrasting the inherent behavioural qualities of these various materials.
Siobhan’s tactile approach to drawing is rooted in years spent immersed in the McNutt family’s textiles business in Donegal. Having worked in the fashion industry in Paris, Copenhagen and Dublin, colour and texture remain a source of inspiration in her artwork. Siobhan currently teaches drawing and design at the Galway Technical Institute. Her work was purchased and presented by Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture to various stakeholders.
