Dominic Thorpe works primarily through performance art, and also drawing, video, photography, installation, contextual, collaborative and relational based processes. He has shown and performed widely including at the Bangkok Cultural Centre, Performance Space London, Galway Arts Centre, Irish Museum of Modern Art and SASA Gallery Adelaide. He has completed several residencies,including at Nordic Arts Centre, Fire Station Artist Studios
These early apples are tasting sweeter than they should.Prematurely plucked from curling barks and entwining limbs, they’ll soon be caught in the nettled tarp with a sting that’s sweeter too and sweeter still, from the hand of Eve.The cut nailed serpent, housing barley in their bed.They’ve been measuring magic potions among their good graces.Three, to
Residency 2022, ongoing work in progress Perched in the attic of the original 330year old Milford House I look out and see the forest of ancient trees surrounding the house. I am drawn to the 250-year-old beech trees weighed down by 100,000’s of spiky beech mast. A day spent collecting hundreds of beech nuts led
We believe that art is an evocation of a fragment of life. The reality of life is indeed complex and can be faithfully conveyed by the coexistence of various means of expression. Over the past year, we have shared our individual researches, which have seemed complementary to each other and have allowed us to grow