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​I exhibit regularly in Cambridge and London. My etchings have shown at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers exhibitions, where in 2024 I was awarded the East London Printmakers Prize for outstanding print. A solo exhibition of my paintings and prints, Do You Feel Irish?, opened at the London Irish Centre in October 2024, and last year I co-curated and exhibited a two-person show at Stapleford Granary Arts Centre. I’m currently developing a body of work entitled No Place in Our Town, anchored by a short moving-image piece, A Certain Critical Period, that takes its name from a phrase in George Saunders’s short story Love Letter.

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I am a painter and printmaker based at St. Barnabas Press in Cambridge.

My work is about the flesh and blood of the human form, and the relationships and narratives we manifest. Through oil painting, etching and lithography, I explore the space between the ideals and realities of national identity, with characters from childhood memory colliding with contemporary news to produce a sometimes-comical dissonance.

 

Working from observation drawing, literature and news, I also use colour and pattern and the spectacular textural range of etching to tell incomplete stories about displacement, solastalgia, and the places where we don’t quite belong.​​

Sheltering a small, remaining trace of fire through a dark period
Work

in the dream there was no one familar;

I met only the black scrutiny 

of an apricot tree in bloom, turning

around as it left suddenly

perhaps it was left there one summer 

when the world was as white as a feast,

before I had learned that a dreamer

must dream like the trees, be a dreamer 

of fruit to the last

from Alphabet, Inger Christensen

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©2025 by Niall MacCrann

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