Niamh Aughney · Keynote speaker, educator & marketeer

Artist.

Niamh paints horses, elephants and other animals in electric colour. One of her artworks has been on the Moon since 2025, in the MoonMars museum at Mare Crisium.

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Paintings

Loud pop-art

One bold ground

Each animal sits on a single flat colour, black, teal or purple, so the figure is all you look at.

Brushstroke colour

Manes, ears and hides are built from patches of orange, coral, violet, yellow and turquoise rather than natural tones.

Drawn line

A dark or glowing contour holds the shapes together and gives the eyes their focus.

Niamh at her easel, brush in hand, painting the teal elephant with a palette of paint in her other hand
In the studio

Painted by hand

Niamh's animals are acrylic paintings on canvas, made by hand at the easel. Each one starts with a single flat colour across the whole canvas, black, teal or purple, which becomes the ground the animal stands out from.

The animal is then built up in blocks of bright acrylic, with patches of coral, yellow, violet and turquoise laid side by side rather than blended. A fine drawn line goes in last to hold the shapes together and bring the eyes into focus, and every finished canvas carries her hand-painted signature.

Here she is working on the elephant.

Pop art horse head in neon orange, magenta, cyan and violet brushstrokes, its mane streaming across a black background
On the Moon · Mare Crisium
Off-world exhibition

Niamh's art landed on the Moon

In 2025 this horse travelled to the Moon with MoonMars, the first museum on the Moon. The collection rests at Mare Crisium, on the Moon's near side.

Museum
MoonMars
Site
Mare Crisium
On the Moon since
2 March 2025
Artworks there
47
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Collection

Celtic art, onchain

A separate body of work rooted in Irish knotwork: interlaced lines with no beginning and no end. The collection lives fully onchain, with only 200 pieces ever to exist.

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Interlaced Celtic knot motif drawn in green lines
Featured

NFT Yearbook

A 420-page physical coffee table book and 3D digital publication documenting Web3 culture and digital art.

Format
Coffee table book and 3D digital edition
Length
420 pages
Archived by
Harvard University libraries and Harvard Business School
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Beyond the canvas

Curating and marketing in Web3

On stage

Keynote speaking

Niamh gives keynote talks at Web3 and art events. Watch one of her keynotes below.

“We should not fear AI, we should fear Quantum Computing.”

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