Gary Farrelly
Gary Farrelly photograped his studio/ Kunstbureau at Pickering Forest
Gary Farrelly is a visual artist based in Brussels, Belgium. Born and raised in The Republic of Ireland, Farrelly is a graduate of Dublin’s National College of Art and Design where he studied fine art print until 2006. In 2007 he successfully undertook a mail art petition for the creation a long term artist’s residency at Galerie W in Paris. He established his studio on site at Galerie W until moving to Dallas in March 2010 at which time he was awarded residency at The University of Texas’s artist-in-residency program, CentralTrak. Between 2011 and 2013 Farrelly returned to Ireland where he was artist in residence at Pickering Forest.
Farrelly’s artworks have been exhibited internationally including at The Crawford Museum in Cork, The Tehran Biennial, Paris’s Slick Art Fair and CBGB313 in New York. The work combines information art, cartography, drawing, painting, collage, and mail art. Subject matters treated include but are not limited to the following: bureaucracy, strategic planning, transport infrastructure, the built environment and raw text. The physical creative process is often characterized by obsessive mark making, redaction and repetitive reworking in diverse materials.
Since his residence at CentralTrak in 2010 Farrelly has continued to exhibit, visit regularly and be a contributor to cultural life in Dallas.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Terminal Compositions, Ro2 Art, Dallas.
2011 All roads lead to Neustern, Galerie Modonov, Dublin.
2010 Great Development, Guerilla Arts, Dallas.
2009 Kunst Bureaucracy, Galerie W, Paris.
2007 Obsessive Territories, This is not a shop, Dublin.
2006 Saddam International Airport, Studio 6 @ Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin.
Selected Group and Collaborative Exhibitions
2013 Going Postal, RE Gallery, Dallas.
2013 Øy Paviljong, Valdres, Norway.
2013 Chaos!, Ro2 Art, Dallas.
2012 Control Tower, Parking Gallery, Tehran.
2011 She was an American Girl, The Fab Lab, Berlin.
2011 INTERNATIONAL, Pickering Forest.
2010 Gallery House 2010, Gallery House, Dallas.
2010 The Non-Profit Margin, CentralTrak Gallery, Dallas.
2009 Elizabeth Cope and Invited Artists, Shankill Castle, Kilkenny.
2009 Slick ArtFair, Galerie W/ Le Centquatre, Paris.
2009 Monument Time, Scale Architects and University College Dublin.
2009 I pray daily for Michael, Galerie Chappe, Paris.
2009 Urban Jealousy, Club Zica, Belgrade.
2008 I pray for Amy daily, Galerie Chappe, Paris.
2008 Urban Jealousy, Galerie Wallywood, Berlin & Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul.
2008 International Roaming Biennial, Parking Gallery, Tehran.
2007 Plans, Sections and Elevations, Royal Institute of Architecture, Dublin.
2007 Cartography, National Museum of Ireland Crawford Gallery, Cork.
2007 Pod Peinture Des Enfants, Galerie W, Paris.
2007 Les Artistes Cassents les Barracks, Fondation A3, Paris.
2007 VAP Only, Galerie W, Paris.
2007 Don’t Cry Work, The Back Loft, Dublin.
2006 Autumn Exhibition by Access to Art, Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin.
2006 New Art at Flip, Context Gallery, LondonDerry.
2006 Graduate Exhibition, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
2005 Quadrant 2005, Bell Table Arts Centre, Limerick.
2005 Defastenist Installation, Electro Wurst2, Berlin.
2005 September Defastenist top mark by ceremony the expansion of the great Defastenist Empire, Dublin.
2005 Foundation of the nation state of Defastena, Pickering Forest.
2005 Addressing the Shadow, CBGB 313 Gallery, New York.
2005 Der Defastenkunstbunker, The Cultivate Center, Dublin.
2004 Rejoyce 100, National Print Museum, Dublin.
2004 3rd International Exhibition of Obsessive Art, Reubins Square, Dublin.
Bibliography
2013: ‘Letter Writing is an Art at RE Gallery’s Going Postal’, review, Betsy Lewis, Dallas Observer.
2013: ‘10 Things Dublin can learn from Radical Science’, interview, Karl McDonald, Totally Dublin.
2012: ‘Conversations in the void’, Joshua von Ammon and Frank Darko, Socialized Contemporary Artists Bureau.
2012: ‘Gary Farrelly at RO2’, preview, Todd Camplin, Modern Dallas.
2012: ‘We’re Experiencing Visual Turbulence’, review, Jamie Laughlin, Dallas Observer.
2012: ‘Surface Play/ Ready to Depart’, review, Peter Simik, D Magazine.
2012: ‘A protrait of the artist as a gay man’, interview, Arnold Wayne Jones, Dallas Voice.
2011: ‘Notes on the naming process in-between Antonio Negri and Quentin Meillassoux’, essay to accompany the exhibition All roads lead to Neustern, Joseph Noonan Ganley.
2011: ‘A portrait of the artist as autonomous coastal city state’, curators essay, All roads lead to Neustern, Donna Marie O’Donovan.
2011: ‘The new obsessive’, interview, Rosa Abbott, Totally Dublin.
2011: ‘Gary Farrelly’, Permanent Culture Magazine, issue 2.
2010: ‘Unhinged Victory’, Permanent Culture Magazine, issue 1.
2010: ‘Art, Money and Labor at CentralTrak’, Jerome Weeks, Art and Seek.
2010: ‘The Non-Profit Margin – artwork addresses the current economic crisis’, Pegasus News.
2010: ‘The Non-Profit Margin’, review, Erin Starr White, ArtLies Magazine, November issue.
2009: ‘Kunstbureaucracy’, review, Montmartre Magazine, March issue.
2009: ‘Kunstbureaucracy’, review, 18 Magazine – Paris.
2009: ‘Podpeinturdézenfants’, review, Milk Magazine – Paris, March issue.
2007: ‘Don’t Cry Work’, review, Aidain Dunne, The IrishTimes, 21/2/07.
2007: ‘Don’t Cry Work’, curators essay for exhibition catalogue, Padraic. E. Moore,
2007: ‘Non/Autonomous Art is a mission demanding complete fanaticism’, Padraic. E. Moore, VAI Printed Project Issue 8.
2007: ‘Ich bin ein Berlinner’, Neil Dowling, Totally Dublin.
2007: ‘Cartography – Map making as art form’, exhibition catalogue, Crawford Gallery.
2006: Review of NCAD Graduate Show, The Irish Examiner.
2006: ‘Defast and Defurious’, interview, Neil Dowling Totally Dublin, June edition.
2006: ‘Quadrant’, curators essay, Anya Von Gosseln, The Belltable Arts Center.
2005: ‘Defastenism’, Anne Iremonger, Dubliner Magazine, December issue.
2005: ‘Wreatches Rule OK’, review, Peter Murray, The Dubliner, May edition.
2005: ‘The September Exhibition to mark by Ceremony the expansion of The Great Defastenist Empire’, review, Tim Stott, Circa Magazine.
2005: ‘The September Exhibition…’, essay and pamphlet, Padraic. E. Moore