About

ABOUT

Duffy is a multi-disciplinary artist working in paint, sculpture, lens-based work, moving image and installation. He draws lines and also crosses lines, both physically and metaphysically while investigating psychological and physical displacement.

Duffy’s practice explores the natural world piercing through the surfaces of urban spaces as a symbol of human impermanence and fragility. Responding to each location differently, he presents his findings under his microscope for examination. The resulting sealed glass slides inform his paintings, small scale sculptures and photographs as he magnifies microscopic details of life. Duffy’s playful attitude to materials and situations counterbalances a very serious social conscience and political intent. Essentially, he explores the survival of species in deteriorating and evolving eco-systems.

"Duffy’s playful attitude to materials and situations counterbalances a very serious social conscience and political intent.  The themes of his work include post-colonialism, media, cultural appropriation, and social, individual and collective responsibilities." Alice Maher

Biog

Bryan Gerard Duffy is a multi-disciplinary artist working in paint, sculpture, lens-based work, moving image and installation. (b. 1985) He graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2009, and is now based in Mayo. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, which includes NODOK 2024, Dokumentationszentrum für moderne Kunst, Niederösterreich, Austria (2024). In 2024, his solo show Idle Walls was exhibited in GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford, and the Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport, with upcoming solo show A Wake in the Waters at the Ballina Arts Centre (2025). 

Duffy is the recipient of the Krems Residency award, Austria (2024), and he was a recipient of the Interface Residence at the Galway Arts Centre (2023): the PLATFORM 31 award (2022) from Local Arts Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland; the Mayo County Council Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award (2022); and the recipient of the Bolay Residency Award, Castlebar, Ireland (2020). He has been awarded numerous of grants from the Arts Council of Ireland, including the Travel and Training award to participate in Artifariti Arts Festival in Algeria and Western Sahara (2017). Duffy has also been the recipient of multiple national and international awards for his films, including being shortlisted for the Best Irish Human Rights Short Documentary with “Sumud, Everyday Resistance” at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) awards (2016), and receiving Bronze Medal Award at the Global Independent Film Awards for his film “Delivery” (2021).