Joanne Duggan is a visual artist based in Naas, County Kildare. Originally trained in Textile Design at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), she began her career in embroidered textiles before moving into painting and mixed media. After a period dedicated to raising her family, she gradually developed a full-time painting practice.

Her work is defined by layered colour, rhythm, and sensitive mark-making. Joanne’s creative process is subtly shaped by her experience of neurodivergence, bringing depth, attention, and emotional nuance to her paintings.

She works predominantly with ink, acrylic, and oil, building compositions through translucent layers and considered gestures. Her paintings draw on memory, interior spaces, natural rhythms, and the shifting nature of identity.

“My work explores quiet emotional spaces — memory, atmosphere, pattern, and the subtle rhythms of daily experience. I build paintings gradually, allowing colour and gesture to unfold in layers, revealing something that can’t be planned in advance.

Painting is a way for me to slow down, pay close attention, and create a sense of stillness within complexity. I’m drawn to moments that feel both intimate and expansive, where something internal meets something universal.

Each piece becomes its own place: part landscape, part interior, part emotional imprint.”

Her exhibition history includes Straight Out of Ireland (Philadelphia), multiple shows with Hang Tough Contemporary, and the RHA Annual Exhibition 2025. Her 2025 solo exhibition Path by Magic at Frama Gallery marked her most introspective and expressive body of work to date.