Johnny McMahon

Johnny McMahon is a Limerick-based visual artist working across drawing, painting and collage-based processes, graduating from Limerick School of Art and Design TUS with First Class Honours in Fine Art Painting. He has exhibited in a number of group shows across Ireland and the UK, most recently at Galway Arts Centre and Catalyst Arts Belfast

Johnny’s practice explores how meaning is constructed and interpreted, particularly looking at the visual language of digital culture through found imagery, memes, and other online fragments. Through a primarily collage-based practice, pictures and objects are decontextualised in an attempt to destabilise conventional readings and reveal how meaning is negotiated and fragmented. The work examines the shifting signs and symbols embedded in “throwaway” or "low" culture, playfully exposing the humour, contradictions, and underlying structures that shape communication and collective experience in contemporary digital life.

Website: johnnymcmahon.neocities.org
Instagram: @johnnymcmahonart
Email: johnnymcmahon3@gmail.com