Niamh Birch is a multi-disciplinary artist from the West Midlands whose practice interrogates the collision of queer and working-class cultures within industrial spaces. Using factory waste, scrap metal, and discarded materials, Birch engages industrial processes as both medium and metaphor, mirroring the relentlessness of labour.

Through painstaking metalwork, Birch archives these intertwined histories, preserving ephemeral moments of joy, struggle, and identity in a material from that embodies endurance and resistance. Paying homage to her Brummie heritage, with a family history of steel fabrication. By transforming discarded industrial remnants into autobiographical narratives, Birch challenges social-political boundaries, mapping personal and collective memories within a landscape where labour and liberation collide

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Solo Exhibitions:

2025 Forged Bonds, The street, Bath Spa University.

Group Exhibitions:

2025 ART BBQ, 44AD, Bath.

2025 Summix, Centrespace, Bristol.

2025 UNDER/WORLDS, Bath Artists Studios, Bath.

2025 Undergraduate Degree Show, Bath Spa University.

2024 A Day Like Today, Walcot Chapel, Bath.

2024 IDENTITY, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography.

2024 RECOLLECTION, Bath Artists Studios, Bath.

Education:

2022-2025 BA Fine Art, Bath Spa University