Gareth Byrne (b. Dublin, Ireland) works mainly with site-responsive installations and sculptural assemblages. The places he chooses to research and explore directly connect with him, often melding a biographical/political interplay and focusing on issues such as class, identity, and ecology in the here and now. Works consist of natural, industrial, and found materials, sculpture, photography, sound/video, and text. Completed works combine these elements to create dynamic installations. Experimentation and arrangement are key to Byrne’s practice, utilised to expand and activate the relational potentialities of materials gathered from our environment.
C.V.
Education
2016 – 2021 BA(Hons) Fine Art, Technological University Dublin
Exhibitions
2024 ‘Stories From The Gardens’, 20th September-31st October, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
2021 ‘TUD Graduate Exhibition’, East Quad, Dublin (“Frameworks”, sculpture acquired by the Office of Public Works, for accession to the state art collection)
2020 ‘Still Life’ The Attic, Dublin
2019 ‘Metaphysics’ Farmleigh, Phoenix Park
2018 ‘Convergence’ North House, Grangegorman, Dublin
2017 ‘Polyphony’ North House, Grangegorman, Dublin
Performance
2018 ‘Notes for a Performance (Re)Visioning a Smokey Meeting’ by Louise Adkins & Nikolai Duffy, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.