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Fionnuala McGowan is a Belfast-based multidisciplinary artist working across printmaking, photography, installation, and creative education. She studied Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art and which included an exchange at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Her practice explores how humans experience and navigate space, drawing on ideas around the instability of perception to create imagery and installations that blur the boundary between the real and the illusory.

Her contributions to printmaking have earned her the Glasgow Print Studio Prize and recognition in Printmaking Today. In 2015, she co-founded Mobile Print Studio, promoting accessible printmaking through pop-up workshops, and later established Make Space Studio in Belfast to support community-focused creative learning. McGowan has undertaken residencies in Scotland, Belgium, and Athens and has exhibited across Europe.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and Glasgow Print Studio.


Selected Projects/Exhibitions
2026 (Upcoming)
The Reflective Room, PS2, Belfast. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

2025
Anseo, Belfast Print Workshop

2024
Folds and Faults, Belfast Print Workshop

2023
Abstract, Glasgow Gallery of Photography            

2022              
Glasgow Print Studio 50 Years, Kelvinhall, Glasgow
AMOA, Athens
Journeying Towards That Which Is Missed, Snehta, Athens
Metanoia, IFAC Arts, Athens

2021
Everything Starts with a Lullaby and Ends with a Lament, Embros, Athens
(Collaborative performance project)

2020
Folds and Reflections, Kypseli Print Studio, Athens

2019
Featured Artist at Glasgow Print Studio

2018
Now You See It, Rogart Street Campus, Glasgow

2017
The Glasgow Print Studio Christmas Exhibition, Glasgow
One-off, Bankside Gallery, London
The Print Works, Glasgow Open House, Glasgow
Earth, Iron, Fire, The Project Café, Glasgow


2016
The Glasgow Print Studio Christmas Exhibition, Glasgow
EP’16, Galway Print Studio, Galway
Dip Your Toe, Govanhill Baths, Glasgow (Print Festival Scotland)
Fold, Crumple, Crease, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow (Solo)


2015
Glasgow Print Studio Christmas Exhibition
Phoenix Exhibition, Glasgow
Hidden Door, Edinburgh
Glasgow Open House
What Floats your Boat, Firhill Basin, Glasgow


2014
Glasgow Print Studio Christmas Exhibition, Glasgow
Six Foot Gallery Christmas Exhibiton, Glasgow
Line of Best Fit, Settlement Projects, Edinburgh
Fine Art Showcase, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow


2013
Et Al.,Unit 3, SWG3, Glasgow




Awards and Grants
2026
Support for Individual Artists (SIAP) Funding, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

2015
Featured in the Summer 2015 issue of Printmaking Today.

2014
The Glasgow Print Studio Prize



Residencies
2022
Snehta Residency, Athens, Greece

2020
Kypseli Print Studio Residency, Athens, Greece

2015
Artist in Residence at St. Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch

2014
Print Studio Residency, The Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium