2026
Exhibition Residencies
Residency period: 11/3/26 - 10/4/26
Nollaig Molloy is a visual artist from Roscommon, Ireland. Her practice explores materials from sites looking into their relevance within historical, social and industrial situations. Using video, animation and sculptural installation, she is interested in ‘material-to-hand’ and draws attention to craft and vernacular ways of physical labour through contemporary contexts. Through in-depth research and engagement with archives, environments and people from local communities, she focuses on the interplay between material, people and their surroundings.
Nollaig Molloy completed her Master of Fine Art with Belfast College of Art at Ulster University in 2020 and received a BA (Hons) History of Art and Fine Art, Sculpture from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 2012. In 2025 her publication A Confection for Photographs was selected for 'Dreamtime Ireland', VISUAL Carlow, a project by Sean Lynch. In 2024 she had a solo exhibition ‘at a distance’ in Queen Street Studios, Belfast and undertook a month-long research residency at The Bluecoat, Liverpool. From November 2023 to November 2024, she was an artist-researcher with Creative Places Ballaghaderreen. In 2022 she completed an artist residency with Urbane Kunste Ruhr (UKR) and The History of the Ruhr Foundation, an archive and library for Social Movements in the Ruhr, Bochum, Germany. During this time, she researched parallels between uses of land, archival documents and extractive practices. In December 2023 she presented this research at UKR symposium ‘From the Archives: Artists in the archive’. In 2025 she was awarded a Visual Arts Bursary from Arts Council of Ireland and is supported by Roscommon County Council.
Current Residencies
2026
Professional Development Residency
2026
Technical Development Residency
