Welcome to Teresa Godfrey Art
About Me
Bio
I am a full-time artist based in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland. I began exhibiting while studying Fine Art at Belfast Metropolitan College in 2013, and since then my work has been shown in group exhibitions in Ireland, the UK, Italy and online. My first solo exhibition was held at Solas Art Gallery in 2025, and I am currently preparing for further solo exhibitions in 2026, 2027 and 2030.
I hold a BSc (Hons) in Geography and an MA in Documentary Film Practice from Ulster University. My work across visual art, film and writing reflects a long-standing interest in landscape, memory and lived experience. Alongside my visual art practice I am an award-winning screenwriter, with two dramas broadcast on Channel 4. I have also published two poetry collections in Ireland and a novel in the United States, and my short stories have appeared in literary journals in Ireland, the UK and the USA.
Artist’s Statement
My work explores the relationship between landscape, memory and lived experience. Working between abstraction and landscape, I am interested in how terrain can function not only as a physical environment but also as a repository of emotional and psychological experience.
My approach to landscape has been shaped by my early work in a government land survey department, where I was involved in the practical processes of measuring and mapping terrain and by the knowledge gained through my Geography studies. These experiences fostered a lasting awareness of landscape as a structured system of form, depth and spatial relationships, and continues to inform how I perceive and interpret the environments I inhabit.
Walking and direct engagement with landscape are central to my practice. Time spent moving through forests, hills, mountains, coastal areas and urban environments provides the sensory and spatial impressions that underpin many of the paintings. Rather than depicting specific locations, these works translate remembered sensations of place into gestural marks, layered colour and shifting spatial tensions.
Alongside these landscape-based paintings, I also create more freely abstract works in paint and pastel drawing. These pieces explore the physical behaviour of materials, movement, and the expressive possibilities of colour and gesture. Through pouring, staining, layering and mark-making, the work allows forms to emerge intuitively, often suggesting energetic fields, organic structures or imagined terrains.
Across these different approaches, the work investigates how experience is registered visually: how landscapes are internalised, how memories of place persist, and how colour, movement and material can evoke the complex ways we inhabit the world.
Exhibitions
24.01.2025 - 24.02.2026 Save Our Planet, Red Bluff Gallery online
12.09.25 -28.09.25 Tones of Fall, Gallery Grounds, Vincent's Walk, Southampton, UK
29.07.2025 - 31.08.2025 Summer Show Market Gallery Cork, Douglas, Co Cork
04.07.2025 - 06.09.2025 Summer Open, Courthouse Gallery & Studios , Parliament Street, Ennistymon, Co Clare
21.06.2025 - 12.07.2025 Stories of Identity 2 Lega Navale Italiana - Matera Magna Grecia , Via Fiorentini, Matera, Italy
11.04.2025 - 09.05.2025 Solo Exhibition Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Convent Road, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim
06.03.2025 - 29.03.2025 Interplay The Engine Room , 59 North Street, Belfast
19.02.2025 - 19.04.2025 Circles, Squares, Triangles, Exhibizone International Group Exhibition online
29.01.2025 - 28.02.2025 Anti-War 2025, Exhibizone: Anti-WAR - 2025 | Smart International Group Exhibition
09.01.2025 - 31.01.2025 Faces, Ten Moir, Finalist, 3rd Faces, Ten Moir Gallery online
01.12.2024 - 31.01.2025 HARK, Hambly and Hambly , Dunbar House, Enniskillen
30.11.2024 - 25.01.2025 Europe in the Heart of Ireland, Hamilton Gallery , 4, Castle Street, Sligo
18.10.2024 - 10.12.2024 Winter Exhibition, Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Convent Road, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim
04.10.2024 - 22.11.2024 Europe in the Heart of Ireland, Europa House , Europa House, Chatham Street, Dublin
20.09.2024 - 12.10.2024 Face-to-Face Portraiture, No8 Gallery , Academy Street, Kildare, Ireland
21.08.2024 - 07.09.2024 Skulls and Bones, Fronteer Gallery, Unit 4 Craft Workshop Building, Orchard Square, Sheffield
20.07.2024 - 10.08.2024 Summer Showcase, Bailieborough Creative Hub , Bailiborough Library, Co Cavan
07.07.2024 - 07.08.2024 Cityscape, Ten Moir, Finalist, Cityscape: Art of the City Online Art Exhibition
12.07.2024 - 30.08.2024 Summer Showcase, Solas Art Gallery, Island Theatre, Convent Road, Ballinamore, Co Leitrim
03.08.2023 - 10.08.2023 Feile an Phobail Visual Art Exhibition, St Mary's University College , Falls Road, Belfast
12.04.2023 - 12.05.2023 An Untold Story: Women Artists of Northern Ireland, Hallows Gallery, 222 Ormeau Road, Belfast
17.08.2018 - 17.05.2018 Aspects Literary and Arts Festival Exhibition, Blackberry Path Art Studio , 26 Grays Hill, Bangor, Co Down
19.10.2017 - 27.01.2018 Loughs, Bogs and Mountains, Enniskillen Castle Museum, Co Fermanagh
07.05.2015 - 30.05.2015 Annual Open Exhibition, Roe Valley Arts Centre, 24 Main Street, Limavady, Co Derry
04.06.2015 - 18.06.2015 Annual Belfast Met HNC Fine Art Student Show, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
05.07.2014 - 19.07.2014 Annual Belfast Met HNC Fine Art Student Show, The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
01.12.2014 - 15.12.2014 Christmas Show, Belfast Metropolitan College , Millfield, Belfast
04.07.2013 - 18.07.2013 Summer Show, Crescent Arts Centre, University Road, Belfast