CV

Positions:

Gallery Co-Director, Catalyst Arts, 2026 - current

Solo Exhibitions:

2025 Forged Bonds, The street, Bath Spa University.

Group Exhibitions:

2025 OVERLOOKED, THE ART PAD, Bath.

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, First Class.

Niamh Birch is a multi-disciplinary artist from the West Midlands. Her practice interrogates the collision of queer and working-class cultures within industrial spaces, engaging themes of archive, identity, and legacy. Using factory waste, scrap metal and discarded materials, Birch engages industrial processes as both medium and metaphor - mirroring the relentlessness of labour. Growing up in a small mining town outside Birmingham, Birch was shaped by a landscape marked by the remnants of industrial collapse. This environment continues to inform her interest in how histories of labour are preserved and where value is placed once industrial sites and communities are rendered obsolete.

Through metalwork, Birch archives these entwined histories, preserving ephemeral moments of joy, struggle, and identity in a material form that embodies endurance and resistance. Paying homage to a family lineage of fabricators and welders.