Andy Mac Manus is an Irish artist based in London. His practice centres on constructed and stitched flag works, using abstraction to explore how identity, borders and belonging are formed, performed and destabilised.

Rooted in painting, his work combines hard-edged geometry with more intuitive, gestural processes. Colour, structure and material are used to build visual systems that appear stable but are often disrupted, fragmented or reconfigured. In recent textile works, this language extends into fabric, where flags become provisional objects shaped by tension, movement and change.

Drawing on the visual language of nationhood, these works question how symbols of territory and identity are constructed and sustained. Installed, draped or carried through landscape, they shift from fixed compositions to contingent forms, reflecting an interest in how belonging is imagined beyond borders and location.

Alongside his studio practice, Mac Manus has realised public commissions for organisations including Creative Land Trust, Newham Council and The Other Art Fair. These projects translate his abstract language into architectural space, responding to site, scale and movement.

With a background in both fine art and graphic design, his work maintains a strong sense of composition and clarity, while increasingly focusing on the conceptual frameworks that underpin systems of representation and belonging.