About

Niamh Bailey is an artist who works in both 2d and 3d. Her formal education in the Fine Arts was completed at University of the Arts London, where she studied Sculpture.

Bailey stages moments of investigation, prediction and exchange between the man-made and the natural. Her work utilises those tightly woven, organic and cultural systems which underpin how we experience our surroundings.

The ordering and categorising that are a common result of human curiosity structure her work. Recurring organisational tools such as labels, clips and plastic wallets, suggest these object arrangements are held within a type of catalogue or archive.

Natural findings are collected and positioned, often suspended between clear panes of acrylic, reminiscent of microscopic slides. In an attempt to study or preserve an object, the act of flattening, both metaphorically and physically, is recurrent in her work, by means of scanners, cyanotypes, 2D nets, botanical pressing and acrylic sheets.

Science Fiction visually and contextually influences her sculptural practice, red martian sand and impossibly vivid floral arrangements meditate on the prospect of alien life and perhaps the future of the Earth. Bailey’s sculptural and digital works frame human intrigue as a tense marriage between organic and man-made forms.