Nadia Armstrong – Winner of the 2020 RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award

Nadia Armstrong is the winner of the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award (value €6,000). Nadia graduated from NCAD this year with a BA in Fine Art with Critical Cultures (International). She was awarded the Fire Station Artists’ Studios 2020 Graduate Award & Residency for Digital Media, a Digital Society Bursary Award and the Goethe Institute’s AI-Residency Award. She is currently studying on the MFA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD. Nadia’s work has a strong contemporary relevance. She works at the intersection between the analogue and the digital world, interrogating the systems and networks of control within which modern humans finds themselves. She is concerned with how we use technology and the ways in which it uses us. Her final year work, Digital Native, is a video experience, that incorporates performance, narrative, green screen, 3D models and virtual spaces.