Prints Among Men

Despite all of the relentless advances in tech, for me photography will always be predominantly a print medium. I am still absolutely thrilled to see a big glorious print of my work - these ones from my Disco Vegetables series were made for a collector by Jim Butler and Patryk Gizicki in Inspirational Arts in Dublin.

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Talamh

I'm delighted to be part of a major exhibition this March in Momentum Fine Art, Miami. “Talamh”, featuring work by eight contemporary Irish photographers, will be formally launched by Minister of State Niamh Smyth TD on Thursday, March 12, 2026, 8pm. A book signing and artist talk will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 6pm.

Talamh is the Irish word for “land” or “ground,” and carries meanings that extend beyond physical terrain to include heritage, memory, and belonging. The show brings together works by eight Ireland-based contemporary photographers working across a range of themes and united by a shared commitment to long-form photographic projects; Conor Horgan, Shane Lynam, Fionn McCann, Malcolm McGettigan, Yvette Monahan, Brían Sparks, and Agata Stoinska. For this exhibition, Island Photographers have invited Linda Brownlee to exhibit alongside the group.

Talamh explores Ireland as a country shaped by tensions: between extraction and restoration, the inner and outer landscape, deep time and the present moment. What emerges is a portrait of a place both familiar and newly revealed, rooted in history yet continually reshaped by change. Each of the eight artists have experienced this landscape in distinct ways, responding to or interpreting it through the prism of their lived experience. Despite these individual perspectives, overlapping concerns emerge, and their works are bound by the zeitgeist of their era.

The works trace the fine line between myth and lived experience, revealing how both continue to inform the Irish gaze. Ireland is presented not as a fixed idea, but as a living, shifting territory formed by culture,politics, and the people who move through it.

PARIS CITY OF LIGHTS

Many thanks to Mark Steinmetz and Irina Rosovsky for including my photograph from the Gilet Jaunes protests in their pop-up exhibition PARIS CITY OF LIGHTS, held during Paris Photo. The photograph was also featured in Winter Papers Volume 9, along with an essay about my Lèche-Vitrines project.

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So Fine Summer

I’m very glad to have two pieces in BOKEH, the So Fine Art Editions Summer Photography Show. One is the latest from my Disco Vegetables series, and the other is from an upcoming project about islands.

Disco Vegetables - Long Aubergines 2, 2024, Archival Pigment print, 60h x 45w cm, Ed. of 10

Home, Inis Oírr 2024, Archival Pigment print, 43h x 60w cm, Ed. of 10

Oh Toads

I was delighted to collaborate with Cecilia Bullo on making her new artwork, “Oh Toads of the river, grieve. Oh Toads of the wetlands, Lament for me. Oh Land, grieve for me. 2023/24”.

It was an intense shoot, not least because she had approximately 18.5 kilos of jesmenite sculptures of toads perched on her airways throughout. I first met Cecilia by chance when I saw her show Being Haunted by the Breezes, Now How Will You Exist? at the Royal Hibernian Academy. I was very taken with the horde of toad sculptures all facing into a corner of the dimly-lit gallery, and was intrigued when I saw a note on the wall saying that they were available to buy. When I asked about this at the reception desk downstairs they told me I could just take whichever ones I wanted from the exhibit. I went back upstairs, announced to the several people watching that I’d been given permission to remove some toads and made my way towards the exit. A figure came out the darkness, wreathed in smiles. This was Cecilia. She was delighted I liked her toads and informed me they were made from ‘Jesmenite, toad DNA and spells”. “What kind of spells?” I asked.

“Good ones” she replied.

This work is part of Distinct, an exhibition in Project Arts Centre curated by Alan James Burns which explores the climate crisis through the perspective of disability. From the exhibition notes: “Cecilia Bullo presents a large-scale photographic work that reformulates cast sculptures of toads as a wearable assemblage on her body, exploring material cultures relating to rituals of healing and transformation through mythological, archaeological, feminist and ecological lenses.”

Artwork by Cecilia Bullo.
Curatorial direction by AlanJames Burns.
Production support by Marie Farrington.
Photography by Conor Horgan.
Photographic assistance by Sara Pirani
Makeup by Christopher Mc Cormack.

The exhibition runs until April 20th in Project Arts Centre, Dublin.

Thanks to Leanne Sullivan for the gallery photo of me with Cecilia and my intern Sara Pirani, who assisted on the shoot.

I made this portrait of one of Cecilia’s toads in my studio. Apparently she’s called Lucille.

Flag No. 6

Very happy that this work has just been bought for the Dun Laoire Rathdown Municipal Art Collection - many thanks to SO Fine Art Editions, who have more of my works in their gallery.

Flag No. 6, 2021, from Post-State (see more from this body of work here)