Moynagh Sullivan

Moynagh Sullivan is a visual artist working primarily in painting. Relationships between colour and surface are central to her practice, which explores neurodiversity and biodiversity, intersectional feminisms, motherhood, and care.

Plain Sight is a series of portraits of late-identified neurodivergent and neurocurious women whose neurodivergence, until recently, remained hidden in “plain sight”. The work is developed in close dialogue with each subject’s stories, colour associations, and other sensory prompts.

Paint is applied to OSB board — a porous, structural material — through washes, sprays, and matte and iridescent mediums, alongside processes of wiping back and sanding. These gestures reveal underlying material properties, echoing experiences of masking and exposure while also referencing collagen differences and hypermobility common among many neurodivergent people. Installed as spatial structures, the works seek to challenge the ableist “crip gaze” and affirm neurodivergent ways of seeing, including strabismus and heightened visual, aural, cultural, historical, social, and psychological pattern recognition.