Johnny McMahon is a Limerick-based Irish visual artist and recent graduate of the Limerick School of Art and Design where he received a first class honours BA in Fine Art Painting. McMahon’s work incorporates the mediums of painting, drawing, sculptural installation, writing, and video and he has exhibited in various group shows in Galway and Limerick City. McMahon has also recently been a member of Studio 8 Collective and Studios, and is funded by the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme.

McMahon’s practice is largely informed by the shifting terrain of digital culture, examining how online communication and meme-driven imagery fracture meaning and distort perception. His work is characterised by the appropriation and decontextualisation of found digital fragments, which are reimagined through expressive, often crude or gestural mark-making and collage. This juxtaposition collapses the distance between ephemeral digital spaces and the materiality of traditional image-making. Appropriated images and textual elements sourced from online captions or personal reflections on the complexities of creating in the digital age are often obscured and erased, disrupting narrative cohesion and exploring themes of censorship and concealment while reflecting the constant flux of information in digital environments. Johnny McMahon’s work interrogates the nature of communication, authorship, and authenticity in a world defined by virtuality and disconnection.