'New Way Home' at Soundcloud HQ, Berlin

Some shots from the opening night of 'New Way Home' in the amazing Soundcloud headquarters in Berlin. A really special place to exhibit my work. The show opened at the end of last month, and will be hanging for three whole months! Many thanks to the wonderful Lisa Schröter, of This Love Is Deadly, for making it happen.

   

           

    

                   

  

Burn Magazine

My work was recently featured on Burn Magazine, 'an evolving journal for emerging photographers'.

Burn is curated by the great Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey. I couldn't be more happy to included on this truly excellent website. I got some wonderful feedback on Burn, although there was a bit of confusion as to whether the film rebate borders on my images are authentic. I can assure everyone that there is no photoshop trickery to them - anyone who knows me knows that I am a total darkroom nut. The images featured are scans of prints that I made in two different darkrooms. In any case, I'm pleased to have people discussing the work!

'New Way Home' at the Andrew Stone Gallery, Westport

 

The exhibition launched on Culture Night, Friday the 23rd of September, in Westport, Co. Mayo. Many thanks to Áine Gallagher, curator of the 'Blink' visual arts programme of the Westport Arts Festival, and especially to Cátríona and John of the Andrew Stone Gallery. Thanks also to William, Ted, Liz and Diarmuid for their help installing the show, and also to Michael Gannon for his invaluable advice.

The exhibition runs until October the 10th. I highly recommend making the trip to Mayo for the Westport Arts Festival, the programme this year is outstanding.

Running concurrently in the downstairs gallery of the Andrew Stone, you can see 'I Am Alive' by William Hamilton, a powerful, inspiring project of which I am a big admirer. Find out more here.

Westport Arts Festival

New Way Home will be in the Andrew Stone Gallery, Westport, as part of the Westport Arts Festival this year. The show opens on the 23rd of August. Find out more here.

Prism

An excerpt from 'New Way Home' is featured in the inaugural issue of Prism magazine, alongside some beautiful work by the likes of Miriam O'Connor, Lauren Winsor and many others. It's a beautiful new publication that has a great future ahead of it no doubt. There are actually two issues currently available, as there was a preview issue released some months back. Check it out!

Audio version of artist's talk in Severed Head

Here is the audio-only version of the talk for 'New Way Home'.

Artist's Talk: Diarmait Grogan in conversation with Adrian Reilly at the Severed Head Gallery

'New Way Home' by Diarmait Grogan - Artist's Talk from Diarmait Grogan on Vimeo.

Many thanks to the brilliant Adrian Reilly for lending his considerable expertise to the proceedings! Thanks also to Ronan McCall of Severed Head for organising the event and to Ciaran Dolan for handling the video work. Most of all, thanks to everyone who made it out on the day, I hope it was an interesting experience.

An audio-only version of this is coming soon.

Unfortunately both cameras died at different points during the Q&A session following this talk. I'm currently trying to piece what I do have into something coherent - video to follow.

New Way Home - Installation Shots

Some more shots of opening night

Thanks again to Margaret Brown for these!

Opening Night

Thanks to Margaret Brown for the photo.

New Way Home

Thanks to everyone who made it to the opening last Friday. What a turnout! Major thanks to Adrian Reilly for opening the show and to Ronan McCall, the man behind Severed Head. It really is a fantastic space. Installation shots to follow.

The gallery will be open from Wednesday to Sunday and the show runs until the end of the month. I'll be there on most days so please drop in for a look or a chat or both.

Opening hours (this exhibition only): Wednesday to Saturday - 12-6pm,
Sunday - 1-5pm

Some press

Here: Le Cool

and in Totally Dublin magazine:



Two fantastic free publications.