About

Michaela Nash is a Northern Irish artist and arts writer. She was born in Belfast and is currently based there, with a studio at the Flax Arts Emerging Artist Programme. She is also a member of the Lucida Collective. She is queer, and multiracial with Irish, French and Merina Malagasy origins. Her personal experiences frame projects around queer ecology, belonging/home and the body/land. She works with painting, photography, sculpture and video installation.

Her writing spans hybridised and experimental art wring. She incorporates art criticism, prose, and poetry into texts that become an ekphrastic layer to an artwork or exhibition.

Contact:

michaelanash@ymail.com
@michanash

CV

Education

Oct 2020-Dec 2020

Node Center For Curatorial Studies, Berlin (online)

Creative Forms of Art Criticism and Writing

Sept 2017-June 2020

National College of Art and Design, Dublin
BA Fine Art Media/Visual Culture joint honours

Sept 2015-June 2016

Belfast School of Art, Belfast
Diploma in Foundation Studies Art and Design

Selected Texts/Publications

May 2022
‘Half Way Out Of The Dark’ exhibition text for
Re-vision Festival exhibition

January 2022

‘Painting to See the Skies’
as part of ‘The Window Project’ with CCA Derry

August 2021
‘Methods of Root Propagation’ for ‘Sam’s Eden’ publication and exhibition, Catalyst Arts, Belfast

May 2021
‘Limits of My Language’ for ‘Limited in Language’ exhibition
Kilkenny Arts Gallery, Kilkenny

Nov 2020
Experimental text in response to Goethe-Institut ‘Disappearing Wall’ project as part of Catalyst Arts ‘Progagate’ series

August 2020
Pamphlet ‘Bodies of Water’
in response to ‘Water Bodies’ exhibition,
Catalyst Arts, Belfast

Feb 2020 ‘Distance To The Horizon’ text in response to Wolfgang Tillmans’ ‘Elephant Man’, published in joint retrospective IMMA, Dublin and Wiels, Brussels catalogue ‘Today Is The First Day’

Nov 2018
‘Synthesis’ text published in
RHA Young Art Writers zine, featured at Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios

Selected Group Exhibitions

March 2022

‘She/Her/They/Them/We’, Imagine! Festival, Arcade Studios, Belfast

August 2021
‘Juncture’, Pallas Projects Galleries and Studios, Dublin

April 2021
‘Infinite Becomings’ NCAD Gallery, Dublin, as part of Lucida Collective

February 2020 Gorey Market House, Gorey, Co.Wexford, ‘I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams and Made Them Real’ curated by David Monaghan for Constellations Festival

November 2019 'Traces' Photobook, Temple Bar Gallery Artist Book Fair, produced during LOTL Residency

June 2019 126 Gallery, Galway, ‘Hiatus’ curated by Meadhbh Mcnutt

Feb 2019 Strand Arts Center, East Belfast, ‘Small Worlds’ exhibition, a culmination of socially engaged intercultural art project ‘The Home Project’

Dec 2018 Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA), St James’ Hospital, Dublin

‘New Age’, culmination of project residency and patient co-creation sessions

June 2018 ‘Pantone 14-0952’, Eblana House, Dublin

May 2017 ‘Time to Change’, ‘NIMHAF Festival’, curated by Ciara O’Malley, Arts and Disability Forum Gallery, Belfast

October 2016- 'Precious, Precious Gold' Photobook, Temple Bar Gallery Artist Book Fair, Dublin, selected for NIVAL collection

Community Projects

Nov 2018- Feb 2019

The Home Project , Intercultural Arts Project
‘Small Worlds’

Residencies

June 2019

‘An Port’ Remote Residency with Lay Of The Land

Collections

‘Precious, Precious Gold’ photobook, featured held in NIVAL collection, Dublin