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influences such as landscape and architecture, people, music and
colour – often letting the process determine the outcome and allowing
subconscious patterns to emerge within exciting abstractions of reality.
Colm has been an exhibiting painter illustrator and printmaker
since 2003, becoming a member of the Graphic Studio Printmakers in
2005. He has exhibited in Ireland and abroad, with works traveling as
part of the opw Collection.
Solo exhibitions include Botox, Unit h, Dublin, 2013; and Temple
Bar Revisited, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, 2011, while his work has
been exhibited as part of the 2013 touring opw group show 40/40/40,
in Milan Warsaw, Rome and Dublin; Production, Monster Truck Gallery,
2011; and “flow”, a joint opw/dfp travelling exhibition in 2010.
Brian Fay
is an artist and lecturer in Fine Art at the Dublin Institute of
Technology. His art practice rooted in drawing deals with the complex
temporalities of objects and artworks. Recent solo exhibitions include
Broken Images or When Does Posterity Begin? at the Royal Hibernian
Academy, Dublin, 2011; the three-part Some Time Now series at The
Lab, Mermaid Arts Centre and Solstice Arts Centre, 2007-08; and Web,
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2005.
He has exhibited in several important groups shows including The
Derwent Art Prize, Royal Mall Gallery, London, 2014; Projet Gutenberg,
Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, 2012; Motion Capture: Drawing and the
Moving Image, with Henri Matisse, Tacita Dean, William Kentridge
and Denis Oppenheim, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, 2012/13; The 43
Uses of Drawing with Buckminster Fuller, Morgan O’Hara, Anthony
McCall, Trisha Brown, Rugby Art Museum, 2011; Other Men’s Flowers
with Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Jeff Wall, Patrick Graham, Patrick
Hall, Martin Kippenberger, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2008,
and [C]Artography: Map-making as Artform with Kathy Prendergast,
Mona Hatoum, Tim Robinson, Brian O’Doherty and Jeremy Deller,
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
He is completing a PhD at Northumbria University on drawing,
temporality and the conservation of paintings. He is the recipient of
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