BIOGRAPHY
Naomi Drapers practice focus’ on the collection, preservation and archiving of found material, and how these activities enable particular relationships between human, plant species and other matter.
Naomi has participated on a number of residency programmes within contemporary art institutions, community and educational contexts; including the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, LOCIS Residency at Residence Botkyrka, Sweden, and The Model, Sligo.
She has most recently completed a three year curatorial residency at Roscommon Arts Centre (RAC) 2021-2023.
In July 2024 Naomi presented a solo exhibition, -but if I could understand what you are root and all and all in all, of her sculptural work at RAC. Through this exhibition she reflected on her role as a curator and how these two practices corelated over a three year period. In July 2025 a new iteration of this evolving collection of works will travel to Esker Arts Centre, Tullamore.
Naomi has presented solo exhibitions at the Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh (2020), at Limerick City Gallery of Art (2018) and Artbox Projects, Dublin (2017).
Group and selected exhibitions include; Matters of Table, Peripheries Post with Gorey Art School, Wexford (2023), A seed’s a star, the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, On Beauty, Roscommon Arts Centre, One Million to One, Botkyrka Konstall, Sweden, Paper for the Sky, Interstate, Brooklyn, NY.