Garvan Gallagher

I'm a lens-based artist currently living in Dublin. I studied photography in IADT and graduated with first class honors in 2008. My work is socially driven focusing mainly on aspects of the human condition. My current artistic practice engages with visual concepts around aging. Previous work has focused on the existing social preoccupation around bodily perfection and our constant obsession with youth, glamour and conformity to an idealized body. In 2010, I completed a feature documentary ‘The Hidden Garden’ which was premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2010 and again at this year's PhotoIreland Festival. With my photographic work, I have exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently with my work ‘Wearing Purple’ at The Clyne Gallery (2011), video work ‘Gubu’ in The Exchange Gallery Dublin (2010), at ev+a / Reading the City (2009) in Limerick, at Recontres D’Arles, France (2009) and at Newspace Centre for Photography in Portland, Oregon, US (2008). I was also nominated for the 2010 AIB prize.