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.
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
michaelanash@ymail.com
@michanash
CV
Education
Oct 2020-Dec 2020
Node Center For Curatorial Studies, Berlin (online)
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
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
‘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
‘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’
The Home Project , Intercultural Arts Project
‘Small Worlds’
Residencies
June 2019
‘An Port’ Remote Residency with Lay Of The Land
‘An Port’ Remote Residency with Lay Of The Land
Collections
‘Precious, Precious Gold’ photobook, featured
held in NIVAL collection, Dublin