Biography
Niamh Swanton is a performative photographer who is from and based in Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. She graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2019, where she gained a degree in Fine Art. Swanton’s work revolves around the human condition. She is particularly interested in the more dispiriting side of the human condition focusing on topics such as anxieties, heartbreak and existential dread. She uses both performance and staged photography as a means to explore the inner workings of one's mind, to create tangible forms form the thoughts and emotions in question. Since graduating college Niamh Swanton has had publications in Source, Graduate Photography Showcase, Issue 098, Bloomers, OUT OF BODY, Issue 04 and Aesthetica, Future Now 2022 anthology. Along with exhibitions such as Origins, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Saturation, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork and Collateral Damage, Pyle Center, Wisconsin.
Exhibitions
Cork Photo
The Gallery at No.46 Grand Parade, Cork, 2018
CIT Fine Art Graduate Exhibition
Craword College, Cork, 2019
Origins Graduate Award Exhibition
Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, 2019
Saturation
Crawford Gallery, Cork, 2022
Collateral Damage, Pyle Center, Wisconsin, 2022
People, Places, Things & The Space in Between, Outset Gallery, Galway, 2023
Awards
Emerging Female Artist of the Year / Cork - 2019
Origins Graduate Award / Waterford - 2019
Fledgling Award / Cork - 2019
Featured Press
Bloomers Issue 04, Out of Body/ 2019
Source Graduate Photography Showcase/ 2019
Aesthetica, Future Now 2022 anthology
