2025
Exhibition Residencies
01/11/2017 - 22/12/2017
My artwork takes a critical view of social and cultural issues of rural Ireland. Often referencing Irish history and religion, my work explores the varying relationships between modern living and rural attitudes both past and present. While I use a variety of materials and processes in each artwork my methodology is consistent. I use old and found materials usually from the now derelict buildings of my families farm along with trinkets that my Grandparents collected all their lives. My work is influenced by rural poets, such as Seamus Heaney and Patrick Kavanagh. Like Kavanagh I have a love/hate relationship with both the land and attitudes of the rural community. I use the house/building backdrop to make my art familiar with the viewer and then bring their minds on a journey into the surreal. During research and production new areas of interest arise and lead to the next body of work.
Daithi Magner
Daithi Magner was born in Limerick, Ireland in 1973. He works predominantly in the medium of sculpture using found materials and old timber. He is both a qualified furniture maker and welder/fabricator and also holds a first class honours degree in Production Design and Art direction from the National film school in Dublin. After years working in the film/Tv industry in London as a designer and prop maker he is now concentrating on his art in his studio. He intends on experimenting with his sculpting and hopes to bring his work to new levels. He is represented by The Westphal Gallery in Berlin and shows in Ireland, London and Berlin
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