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.

Selected Exhibitions:

2026          Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
2026          36 Hours, Lewisham Arthouse, London, UK
2026          Auto Amor, Terrace Gallery, London, UK
2026          The Abstract Condition, Firepit Art Gallery, London, UK
2026          Winter Salon, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
2025          Auto Amor, Acrylicize, London, UK
2025          Raw Summer Show, London, UK
2025          OXO, Outset Gallery, Galway, Rep. of Ireland
2024          The Other Art Fair (Entrance Installation), London, UK
2024          Rejects by Art Friend, Stokey Popup, London, UK
2024          Warchild presents Secret 7s, Now Gallery, London, UK
2023          Winter Group Show, Folkestone Art Gallery, UK
2023          SOTA Exhibition, Stratford, London, UK
2023          The Other Art Fair, Kings Cross, London, UK
2022          Cúige Arts Festival, Mullingar, Rep. of Ireland