Niamh Pounder- BA (Hons) Fine Art
Niamh Pounder is a sculptural artist working through fabric, found object, and figurative form. Pulling from the every-day, and situational inspiration, she forms spaces and artifacts distorted through blunt materiality, or contextual visual shifts from personal projection.
The importance of forming a space for viewpoint and conversation around the trans, queer lived experience is the forefront of Pounder’s practice, with sexual relationships and the self-destructive validation that accompanies these interactions being a recurring theme. Conflicting negotiations between her protection of the self, alongside a need to be seen in a feminine and desired manner (even when being the subject of fetishisation), are displayed in familiar domestic found objects. Distorted through entangled embodiment and fetish-based materiality.
The domestic home alongside sexual motifs illuminates the early beginnings of many young trans individuals who strive for their gender validation, attempting to make their bodies worthy when cast out of social passages.
