About the artist
Maria Noonan-McDermott is an Irish visual artist and poet from Donegal, now based in Kinlough, Co. Leitrim.
Inspired by the Irish landscape, folklore and the emotional weight of memory, she creates paintings and texts that are rooted in place and storytelling. Her work draws on the spirit of rural Ireland and the voices, histories and imaginative worlds held within it.
Recent work includes exhibitions, residencies, commissioned projects and poetry publications across Ireland and beyond.
First Light, 2026 Oil on canvas 80 × 60 cm Finalist, John Richardson French Residency Award 2026
The Seeker Oil on canvas 71 × 91 cm Finalist, Earhart Art Prize Award 2026
The Red Chair Oil on canvas 77 x 77 cm Time-Lapse exhibition Featured painting
