Mairi Timoney

Mairi Timoney lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland. She studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art and at L'École Superieure Des Arts Decoratifs in Strasbourg, France.

Since graduating Timoney has shown work in several art galleries and museums, including The Whitechapel Gallery in London, The National Gallery of Modern Art and The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. She was awarded the Edinburgh University Barnson Bequest Award, The Artspace to Let Award and was featured as an emerging artist to invest in on Saatchi Art.

Timoney is interested in collecting imagery and materials from various sources to piece together visuals which are aesthetically and compositionally engaging. She enjoys using the juxtaposition of different media to consider surface, space, pattern and colour whilst the overlaying imagery, both found and personal, allows her to explore her interest in place and narrative. The fragmented landscapes which appear in her work come from an attraction to unfamiliar surroundings, quiet landscapes, architecture and the lives and stories of the people that inhabit these spaces.