Francis Fay
On 26 June 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Francis Fay is an Irish artist active on the domestic scene since 2012, and whose performance and curatorial projects have been presented nationwide at galleries, theatres, libraries and public spaces.
Recent projects include ‘Your Self-Made Super Human’, his 2019 performance at Wexford Arts Centre. Francis’s video trilogy, ‘Queering the Landscape’, developed at a Tyrone Guthrie Centre residency, premiered the same year at the ‘Diffraction’ screening,126 Gallery, Galway. In 2016, he was commissioned by Arts Council Ireland to perform at historic Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin in ‘Future Histories’, a response to the 1916 Rising.
Co-founder and curator of http://livestock-art.com/, a platform building audiences and promoting Irish performance art, Francis was also co-director of the Dublin Live Art Festival 2015. He gives annual performance arts workshops to graduates of Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design.
The themes of his photographic montages include self portraiture and cityscapes, specifically that of the Dublin imaginary.
Participated in the following Live Art Ireland projects :
> Artist in Residence for the La Pocha Nostra Workshop and Residency April 2023 (Link)
> Convergence artist 2023 (Link)
Easter Image Making
photo Julie Lockett