Gary Farrelly
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Gary Farrelly (born 1983) is an Irish artist and a founder of the Defastenist art group.
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[edit] Life and work
Gary Farrelly was born in Dublin, Ireland.[1] He gained a BA in Fine Art at Dublin National College of Art and Design (2002–2006).[1] In 2004, whilst at the college, Farrelly, along with fellow undergraduates, founded the Defastenist art group and co-wrote their manifesto.[2] The group centres around him and Padraic Moore, and in 2005 staged a "provocative, young and energetic exhibition" at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[3] Farrelly collaborated closely with erotic artist Sofie Iremonger for several years.
Farrelly said:
| “ | As students, we used to go to art exhibitions all the time, because you could get pissed for free. But they were totally shit and boring. De-fastenist exhibitions have musicians playing at them and are exceptionally entertaining. I think that de-fastenism is the last breath of fresh air for Irish art and genuinely I would stand in front of a tank and have myself squished into the pavement, sooner than see it die. Because if it dies, everything that is free minded and independent about this republic will die.[4] | ” |
In August 2005, with Alex Reilly, he represented the Defastenists in Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism at CBGB 313 gallery in New York, showing alongside Stuckist artists and Remodernist film makers and photographers.[5]
In 2005, Victoria Mary Clarke, author and now wife of Shane MacGowan, joined the Defastenist group, having invited Farrelly and fellow member, Padraic E. Moore, for tea. The pair had brought a gift of jelly beans. Farrelly consumed gin and chocolate, whilst describing ambitions to set up a Defastenist island republic and plans for a Defastenist battleship, before announcing to Clarke that he loved her.[6]
In 2007, his work Don't Cry Work was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.[1] That year, he relocated to Paris, where he has a permanent exhibition at Galerie W. Farrelly will be exhibiting at The International Roaming Biennial of Tehran.[7]
Farrelly's work depicts his passions and obsessions, which include sailors, planes and airports, as well as maps of a world he has invented.[4] He records his feelings and thoughts in visual diaries, which are dated, stamped and signed.[4]
Padraic E. Moore, wrote:
- For Gary Farrelly (1983-2077), ideological and aesthetic compromise is the most difficult aspect of "Real Life". As a consequence, he furnishes a "compensating" art that is a precise physical manifestation of egocentric world view. In and through his practice he develops strategies to implement his will. Habitually working with the flotsam and jetsam of an ultra-consumerist society, Farrelly modifies history, revises geographical boundaries and populated the world with images, concepts and issues that stimulate him most.[8]
- Through fastidious and obsessive processes Farrelly produces exquisite art objects, which enable him to simultaneously attain a position of perpetually gratifying contingency. By means of devotional commitment to his work Farrelly expects to eventually construct and inhabit that sought after state of utopia.[8]
Farrelly said:
| “ | These pictures of airliners, motorways and airport terminals are inflected with an obsession with the rigorous, robust and monumental erections of our time. Functioning as vessels for personal narratives and private vulgarities—The artwork is a powerful marriage of the obvious and the disguised—the aesthetic and the conceptual—the rhetorical and the censored. I would say, without a hint of irony, that these works mark a milestone in the development of art and all human culture".[9] | ” |
[edit] Shows
Solo shows:
- 2006: Obsessive Territories, Thisisnotashop Gallery, Dublin
- 2006: Saddam International Airport, Studio 6 Temple Bar Studios, Dublin[1]
Group shows include: Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, Dublin Crawford Museum, Cork City; Fondation A3, Paris; Hunt Museum, Limerick City; Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin; Liberty Hall, Dublin; National Print Museum of Ireland, Dublin.[1]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b c d e "Gary Farrelly", artinfo.com. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
- ^ Sherwin, Brian. "Art Space Talk: Padraic Moore", myartspace.com, 31 October 2006. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
- ^ "Memorable moments from the cultural year, Irish Times, 17 December 2005.
- ^ a b c Clarke, Victoria Mary, "Defastenist movement", victoriamaryclarke.com, 2005. Retrieved 14 January 2008
- ^ "Archive: Some past Stuckist shows", stuckism.com. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
- ^ Clarke, Victoria Mary. "Why I never became an artist", Irish Independent, 11 September 2005. Retrieved 14 January 2008.
- ^ sorce/ garyfarrelly.blogspot.com and www.myspace.com/garyfarrelly and verified by the organisers of the biennial who can be contacted via www.biennialtehran.com xx
- ^ a b Moore, Padraic E, Dont Cry Work, catalog, 2007.
- ^ Farrelly, Gary. [http:www.myspace.com/garyfarrelly "Artist's blog"], MySpace, 24 April 2008.
