Michelle Keegan

Keegan is fascinated by Printmaking, she lives for it and has never ceased to be excited and amazed by its magic and potential.
The process is a fundamental part of the work. The images emerge through allowing the print process of etching and the personality of the metal, on which the images are constructed, to become essential to the visual dialogue. The nature of the process demands clarity of thought, precision and reflection throughout the making process.
A Slade School of Art graduate, and winner of the 2014 Flourish Award for excellence in printmaking, Keegan describes her artistic practice as a way in which to conduct conversations with the landscape and reflect on notions of belonging, identity, rootedness, liminality, and ‘home’. The work explores the dynamics and ambiguities of relationships, therefore exposing private ways of seeing and that of wider public discourses.
Keegan is the senior lecturer in Printmaking at the University of Northampton and runs a small print workshop in Nottingham, which is her professional home. She strongly identifies with Romney Marsh, where she spent much of her childhood and adolescence, as her spiritual home, it is a place whose desolate and minimal characteristics continually ‘haunt’...

1988-1990 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Fine Art
1985-1988 Kent Institute of Art and Design Maidstone College
BA honours 1st class in Fine Art
1984-1986 Nottingham Trent University
Post Graduate Certificate of Education
2015 The Higher Education Academy
Fellow

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Tarpey Gallery Colour and Contours
2019 Gallery 57 Organic form, Listening for the Past
2018 Gallery 57 Drawn in the Margins
Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery Make Colour Sing, review of contemporary abstraction
Gallery 57 Arundel Winter
Tarpey Gallery Still Navigating
Banks Mill Studios Derby Derby Print open
2017 Gallery 57 Arundel Contemplation
Tarpey Gallery Christmas exhibition
Gallery 57 Arundel Interior Space
Staithes Studio Gallery Represented work at the Leeds Print Fair
The Old Lock up Gallery The Secret Postcard
Invited Artist Lady Bay Arts Festival Nottingham
Staithes Studio Gallery Represented work at the Hepworth Print Fair
Staithes Studio Gallery Works on Paper Printmaking Exhibition
2016 Midlands Printmakers Open exhibition prize winner
The Old Station Gallery Rowsley Winter Exhibition, Still Navigating series
Leicester Print Workshop Drawn in the Margins
Staithes Studio Gallery A History in Layers
The Old Station Gallery Rowsley Palimpsest
Nottingham Society of Artists Gallery How soon is now, review of contemporary abstraction
Art-Athina International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens Precious Little
2015 Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery Flourish Award For...