Nicola Sheehan is a visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. She received a First Class Honours BA in Fine Art in 2021 from MTU Crawford College of Art & Design. She works primarily with expanded printmaking techniques, utilising a combination of both digital and analogue processes. Her body is the subject matter in the work which studies women from history and mythology who have been inaccurately or unfairly represented. The work is heavily research based, and aims to empower these characters by studying and re-telling the narrative in an unbiased manner. For her degree show work, she was awarded the MTU Graduate Residency Award (Printmaking), the MTU Graduate Residency Award (Materials Store), the MTU Student Engagement Exhibition Award, the Cork City Council Arts Office Purchase Prize, the Tyndall Institute Purchase Prize and the MTU Purchase Prize. In 2021, Sheehan was awarded the Kathleen McKenna Award. The award commemorates Irish Republican activist and journalist Kathleen Napoli McKenna, and is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012 - 2023 initiative. In 2022, she was awarded the Valerie Gleeson Development Bursary and the Limerick Printmakers Award.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Collections include: Tyndall Institute, Office of Public Works, MTU Art Collection, and Cork City Council Arts Office.

Nicola is a member of Cork Printmakers, Backwater Artists Network and Visual Artists Ireland.