Website

http://www.garyfarrelly.blogspot.com

Relationship status

single

College / University

National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Program

Fine art specialising in Print

Graduation

6 June 2006

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Painting

I am...

Gary Farrelly was born Dublin, Ireland in the year 1983. There he studied at The National College of Art and Design before relocating to Paris in 2007. Farrelly is a fervent advocate of the Defastenist approach to art production, criticism and proliferation. He exposes perminantly at Galerie W in Paris whilst collaborating with obsessive practitioners in Ireland, Germany, Japan and Italy on exhibitions, rhetorical publications and mail art.

About my artwork

Born in Dublin, 1983, Gary Farrelly is an emerging Irish artist currently based in Paris. One of the founders of The Defastenist movement, Farrelly co-wrote 'the manifesto for an obsessive art' in 2006 with curators Padraic Moore, Donna Marie O'Donovan and musician David Turpin. Though young, Farrelly has accrued an impressive résumé of exhibitions and artistic projects in several countries including Ireland, France, Germany, The United States and Iran.

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.

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

Don’t cry-work (2007) P.E.Moore

Between 2001 and 2006, Farrelly studied fine art at The National College of Art, Dublin. He began publishing a Xerox publication Kunstbahnhoff in which he illustrated his artistic principals supported with decorative diagrams and statistics. Through the dissemination of Kunstbahnhoff, he came in contact with other artists working in the same vein. In 2003 The Defastenist Party was founded, Farrelly contributed to various publications produced by the group. He also presented the parties bi-weekly cabaretta which ran in various improvised locations throughout 2004/5. The Defastenist Party has exhibited as a group half a dozen times in Dublin, Paris and Berlin - Farrelly has been involved and shown on all occasions becoming known for his 'edgy and gifted paintings and prints'(the Dubliner April 2005) and his highly rhetorical discourse.

Gary Farrelly has had three solo exhibitions at the time of writing: Saddam International Airport (2006) where he exhibited a series of works inspired by airports built by despots beside drawings of invented airports dedicated to his own personal heroes and cultural icons (e.g. Quentin Crisp International Airport). Obsessive Territories (2007) featured seven large handmade maps of fictional countries invented by the artist and a series of commerational panels marking their cultural and infrastructural achievements. Kunstbureauobsessive (2007-present) is an on going exhibition of Farrelly's artworks at Galerie W, Paris.

The artwork often involves recurring fixation with utopic, infrastructural and systematic subject matters: aviation, despotism, road building, railways, statistics etc. Often manifested in the form of cartography, diagram and bureaucratic lists - Farrelly infuses these readable formats with personal and rhetorical information that makes the work simultaneously readable and confusing to the spectator.
Producing 7 days a week, 10 hours a day in his windowless cockpit sized studio, the artist creates art objects which have been show by institutions all over the world. Including Whitebox foundation (New York), The Crawford municipal art gallery (Cork), The Belltable (Limerick), A3 Foundation (Paris), and Electrowurst (Berlin). His work has been purchased by collections including. The Cawford Gallery, Marina Guinness, The Academy of everything is possible, Kevin Kavanagh, Martin Lu, Dominique Plassard, Valery and Christy Moore, Damian Mathiews, Caroline de la Marinier, Luca Marenzi and John Bruton (former Irish prime Minister and EU ambassador to the United States.

Artists I like

Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Iremonger, Gilbert and George, Eva and Adel, George Grotz, Otto Dix, Brian Maguire, Evelyne Axcelle...

Interests

Airports, air-disasters, motorways, sailors, military parades, despots and despotism, countries that nolonger excist, fictional countries, Defastenism, Dada, Spartacus, Champagne, politics, espionnage, bureaucracy, statistics, Uniforms, airline meals, green plants and cast concrete.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

Solo Exhibitions

2007/8 KUNSTBUREAUOBSESSIVE, Galerie W, Paris.
2007 OBSESSIVE TERRITORIES, Thisisnotashop Gallery, Benburb Street, Dublin 7.
2006 SADDAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Studio 6 Temple Bar Studios, Fownes Street, D2.

Group Exhibitions

2008 ARTTRAIL 2008, Cork, Ireland
2008 I PRAY FOR AMY DAILY, Galerie Chappe, Paris.
2008 TEHRAN INTERNATIONAL ROAMING BIENNIAL, Tehran and Istanbul.
2008 PLANS SECTIONS AND ELEVATIONS, Institute of Architecture, Dublin
2007 CARTOGRAPHY, Crawford Museum, Cork City.
2007 PODPEINTUREDELARENTRE, Galerie W, 44 Rue Lepic, Paris
2007 LES ARTISTES CASSENT LA BARRAQUE, Fondation A3, Place Saint Sulpice, Paris 6.
2007 VAP ONLY, Galerie W, 44 Rue Lepic, Paris 18.
2007 DON'T CRY-WORK, The Back Loft, St Augustine Street, Dublin 8. 2006 CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION, Access to Arts Gallery, The Design Tower, Dublin 4.
2006 NEW ART IN FLIP, The Context Gallery, London Derry.
2006 THE MYSTERY ART EXHIBITION, The Hunt Museum, Limerick City.
2006 AUTUMN EXHIBITION, The Central Bank of Ireland,1 Central Bank Plaza, Dublin 2.
2006 GRADUATE SHOW OF THE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART, 100, Dublin 8.
2005 QUADRANT 2005, The Belltable Gallery, O'Connel Street, Limerick City.
2005 THE SEPTEMBER EXPOSITION*, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.
2005 ELECTRO WURST 2, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin.
2005 ADDRESSING THE SHADOW**, CBGB 313 Gallery, 313 Bowery, New York.
2005 THE FANTASTIC MISTER TOM, The Cross Gallery, Francis Street, Dublin 8.
2005 DER DEFASTENKUNSTBUNKER, The Convergence Center, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
2004 REJOYCE 100, The National Print Museum, Dublin 4.
2004 THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF OBSESSIVE ART, Reubens Square, Dolphins Barn, Dublin 8.

*TO MARK BY CEREMONY THE EXPANSION OF THE GREAT DEFASTENIST EMPIRE** AND MAKING FRIENDS WITH WILD DOGS: REMODERNISM

Projects

2008: Silent auction at White box foundation, NewYork.
2007: Unreal City 2 periodicle, Dublin, Paris, NewYork
2007: Podpeinture des enfants, Galerie WRue Lepic, Paris,
2007: Printed Projects publication, International
2007: GropuisStadt pilot project Resedency, Berlin
2006: Contribute illustrations to the periodicle Unreal City.
2005: Contributed artwork to Polish online periodicle Tempomgz.com.
2005: Artwork use on cover of Christy Moore album Burning Times (Sony Ireland).
2005: Contributed illustrations and writting to the periodicle, Europa.
2005: Lecture on obsessive art at the Berlin viewing club.
2005: Lecture on obsessive art at Trinity College Dublin visual arts society.
2004: Founded and edited the periodicle Der Defastenkunstbahn, Dublin.

Collections

Luca Marenzi(London), Martin Liu(NewYork) Dominique Plassard(Paris), Damien Mathiews Fine Art(London), Fatine Layt(Paris), The Crawford Museum(Cork), Laura Seppioni(Milan), Guinness Family(Celbridge), Keven Kavanagh(Dublin), Gerald Barry (Dublin), Modonov Gallery(Ireland and Japan), and others in Ireland, Europe and The United States.

The centre of the artworld is

New York, Berlin, Beijing, my studio, nowhere and everywhere, another city