Fiona Finnegan is a Belfast-based painter whose work explores

memory, ritual, and the spectral nature of images. Her practice

evolved through process and necessity rather than formal training -

she began painting on found wood, drawn to its weathered surfaces

and traces of previous lives. Over time, layering and sanding became

central to her method, a rhythm of revealing and concealing that

mirrors the instability of memory itself. Now working primarily on

linen, a material bound to her family’s history in the Irish linen mills,

she finds a quiet continuity between manual labour and the labour of

remembering.