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Brain Fay (IRE) 2020/2021
​Arno Kramer (NL) 2019/2020

Brian Fay 

1. From a speculative reconstruction of underlying figure- macro x-ray- Rembrandt Old Man in Military Costume Pencil on Paper, Winner of the AXA Drawing Prize 2016, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

Brian Fay is an Irish artist living in Dublin. His practice uses different representational strategies in drawing to record, depict and present models of time and temporality using pre-existing artefacts, objects and artworks. 

For Fay a pre-existing artwork or artefact has a complex relationship to time, one that does not have a straight linear chronology.  It both depicts and represents the historic time in which the image has been made, the time of its reprographic production, the time depicted in the image itself, the contingent time of the image's reception, and the times and mode of its reproduction.  This temporal complexity is further extended by acts of conservation and restoration which, though acts of interpretation and adaptation folds time back on the artwork itself.  Further temporal readings are brought again when a drawing employs an intensive time consuming drawing strategy, one that can establish a direct relationship to the original source material. 

Solo shows include A Mobile Living Thing DLR Lexicon Gallery (2021), To something that went before (CSdeK), Oonagh Young Gallery (2018), X (IR), nag Gallery, Dublin (2016), Of the Survival of Images (and Objects) (2014) also nag Gallery and Broken Images or When does Posterity Begin? (2011), Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. Group shows include Inspiration and Rivalry: After Vermeer (2017) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, After an Act (2018) Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Motion Capture: Drawing and the Moving Image, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2011) and the international touring show Into Irish Drawing (2009) curated by Arno Kramer.

His work is in the National Drawing Collection Ireland, and the collections of The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, the Dublin Institute of Technology, Office of Public Works and numerous private collections. He has received awards from both the Arts Council and Arts Council Northern Ireland. He is the winner of the 2014 Derwent International Drawing Prize and the AXA Drawing Prize 2016. 

Fay holds a practice led PhD from Northumbria University, England, entitled States of Transience: Drawing practices and the conservation of museum artworks. He is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Technological University Dublin, and has been invited on to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency Programme, Connecticut, USA in 2021. 
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Further information on his practice is available at https://www.brianfayartist.com

2. Looted salt mine 1945 Manet in the Winter Garden Pencil on paper, Winner of the Derwent International Drawing Prize 2014.

3. 3 Stages Restoration Vermeer in non-chronological order
Pencil on paper.

4. Vermeer Woman reading a letter with Maid - Cracks Drawing
Ink on paper, Collection of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

5. Infrared and reverse drawing views from Erased de Kooning, Pencil on paper, 2018

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