NIKKI FOSTER

Nikki Foster is an artist based in Dublin working across painting, photography, and text. Drawing on diaristic references, her work transforms everyday scenes into spaces marked by tension, uncertainty, and quiet strangeness. Through an engagement with memory and imagination, she explores how personal experience shapes the emotional and political atmosphere of daily life. Her practice often unsettles the familiar, allowing ordinary moments to appear unstable, uncanny, and open to new interpretations.

Education

2025 Artist Mentoring Sessions, Gorey School of Art

2024/25 Turps Correspondence Course, Turps Banana London

2024 Critical Correspondence Course, RHA Dublin

2012 Birkbeck, University of London: MA Arts Policy and Management: Curating Pathway

2008 Institute of Education, University College London: PGCE PC 

2006 Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London: BA Painting

Group Exhibitions

2025 Dublin Art Book Fair curated by Dr Selina Guinness, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin

2025 Halftone, The Library Project, Dublin

2025 Artform Winter Exhibition, The Dunmore, Dublin

2025 Postcards from the Artist Studio, Both Gallery, London

2025 Adjusting Frequencies, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh

2025 Split 3, Candid Arts, London

2025 Split 2, Cross Street Arts, Wigan

2025 A Dance at the Crossroads, Ranelagh Arts, Dublin

2025 Kilkenny Portrait Exhibition ’25, An Chead Tine Gallery, KilKenny

2025 Shifting Sands, CCA Galleries International, Jersey

2025 Split, Dispensary Gallery X Hypha, Wrexham

2025 If Heaven Falls, The Lido Stores, Margate

2024 Dublin Art Book Fair curated by Adrian Duncan, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin

2024 Halftone by PhotoIreland, The Library Project, Dublin

2023 Here and Now, TON Gallery, Dublin

2019 Sheltered, Copper House Gallery, Dublin

Publications/Other

2025 Watching You, self-published artist zine distributed at the Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios

2025 Prosody16, recorded converstation with James Merrigan, fireartsale.org, SoundCloud and YouTube

2024 After Landing Before Takeoff, self-published artist zine distributed at the Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios

2022 Her Company, The Bridport Prize, Flash Fiction Category (Shortlisted)

2018 Putting the Boat to Bed, Poetry Collection by Deirdre Foster (Illustration credit), Iron Press

2015 Awesome Monster, self-published artist zine originally stocked by Gosh Comics, Soho, London.  Now held in The British Library Zine Collection and Goldsmiths Library London, Liberate Zines Collection

2015 Identity: an Anthology, ‘Lady Limbo’ (Illustration credit), One Beat Zines

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/nikkifosterworks/