Installation shot by Brian Sparks
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
I'm very sorry to hear that the amazing (and tiny) Assassination Custard cafe has finally closed its doors
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A great video about the "Changing States: Ireland in the 21st Century" exhibition currently showing in Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
Read MoreWhen I brought Ferdia there he told me it was exactly the kind of place he’d imagined
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Flag no. 13, from the exhibition Post-State, 2022
There was a slight kerfuffle when an over-eager security guard rushed out to try and stop me
Read MoreBack to Berlin
Read MoreI’m very happy to have two of my works included in the Changing States: Ireland in the 21st Century exhibition, currently on show in Berlin
Read MoreOne of the highlights of the past eighteen months has been my involvement with Island Photographers
Read MoreA last-minute house swap in Paris
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Artist Michael Kane, photographed in his studio on 11th March 2024
A portrait of the artist Michael Kane
Read MoreAn interesting project - to retrace Katherine Mansfield’s steps around Paris and Fontainbleau.
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Cecilia Bullo - Oh Toads of the river, grieve. Oh Toads of the wetlands, Lament for me. Oh Land, grieve for me. 2023/24. Photographic print on vinyl 300x150 cm
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.
It was an honour to chair the post-screening discussion after Sidonie in Japan at the Dublin Film Festival, with star Isabelle Huppert and director Élise Girard. Photo: Simon Lazewski
It was an honour to chair the post-screening discussion after Sidonie in Japan at the Dublin Film Festival, with star Isabelle Huppert and director Élise Girard.
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Flag No. 6, 2021. Archival Pigment Print h:65 w:46. Edition of 10.
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)
Forest, Dublin 1, 60w x 45h cm, 2023.
Archival pigment print on 308 gsm Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper. Framed in limed ash box frame behind AR glass. Edition of 6 + 1 AP, with 4 available.
An invited response to a pocket urban forest in Dublin 1.
Read More“I suddenly found myself on the front line as missiles sailed over my head towards a phalanx of CRS riot police. With their kevlar exoskeletons they looked like killer robots from the future.”
Read MoreFrank Callery has included two poems based on my photographs in his latest book.
Read MoreI have stories and photographs in two books that have just been published, and one has been nominated for an Irish book award.
Read MoreAn update about some upcoming auctions, group exhibitions and books which feature my work.
I was lucky enough to do a house-swap with an artist friend in Paris for a couple of weeks, giving me a much needed fix of France - got to see friends, some great art and just enjoy being in the greatest city in the world. I also got down to Arles to see the Rencontres photography Festival, always worth the trip.
Rue De Buci
Dominique cuts loose in the Café des 2 Moulins, Montmartre (the Amelie bar)
