Vanessa Jordan is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator based in Co.Galway. She is interested in framing movement, tracing and holding moments in time to convey transformation as she explores themes of identity, maternal experience and loss. Reflecting on personal history, memory and dreams, she often uses expressive portraiture to create narrative in an attempt to reveal that elusive, intangible notion of identity.
She graduated from ATU Galway in 2022 with an MA in Creative Practice. She has been working as a professional, commercial photographer since 2001 and opened West Coast Art art school in 2011. She recently completed a two year co-directorship with 126 Artist-run Gallery, (2023-2025)
where she has had the opportunity to expand her practice to include curation and documentation of artists work through both stills and video. Her curatorial work includes, Build, Balance, (2023), Artlink Members Show, Meitheal, (2024), This Must Be The Place, a solo show by John Brady, (2025).
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