“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.”
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Hung Out to Dry, Ballina Arts Centre, 2025 Idle Walls, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford, 2024 Idle Walls, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport, 2024 The Fabric of Society, National Museum of Ireland Countrylife, 2022 The Fool by the Roadside, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, 2017 Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport, 2016 The Fool by the Roadside, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo, 2014
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NODOK 2024, Dokumentationszentrum für moderne Kunst, Niederösterreich, Austria, 2024 In-House, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport, 2023 Re:Form, 126 Gallery Galway, 2023 RHA Royal Hibernian Academy Annual, 2023 Clifden Arts Festival, Interface Innagh, Galway, 2022 Straight Out of Ireland, Philadelphia, USA, 2022 “Elaborate and Methodical”, curated by Nuala Clarke. Ballina Fringe Festival, Ballina, 2021 Mayo Artists Show, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, 2017 Mayhem, Livestock, The Complex, Dublin, 2016 The State We're In, The MART Gallery, Dublin, 2016 Saw Dust, The MART Gallery, Dublin, 2015 Off the Wall, Atlantic Technical University Mayo, 2015 Mayo Artists Show 2014, Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar Parallax Off-Site Event, MK International Festival 2010, Milton Keynes Gallery, England, 2010 Footsteps towards Freedom, Mayo County Library, Castlebar, 2010
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Points of Contact, Interface Innagh, Galway and Catalonia, Spain, 2025 Young Model, The Model, Sligo, 2023 Art Roundhouse, Galway Educate Together National School, 2021 High Impact, Linehall Arts Centre, Castlebar, 2020 The New Wing, Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar, 2019 Seeker (World's Largest Ball of Cellophane tape), Claremorris Open Exhibition COE, 2017 Give your Voice Wings, National Museum of Ireland Countrylife, 2016 Disappeared, Tindouf Refugee Camps, Algeria, 2010 Deedpoll Namechange, Ireland and Serbia 2009
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“It’s a challenge attempting to contain the mercurial vision of Bryan Gerard Duffy, and there is nothing ‘idle’ in the scope and ambition on display here. Ultimately, Duffy is a storyteller, and the interwoven narratives of Idle Walls are the makings of a weighty novel, on this occasion condensed into a short story.”
“By changing his name, the artist is taking on the identity of ‘the other’, challenging our preconceptions of who or what it is to be Irish, and our relationship to the changing face of Ireland.”
“Bryan Duffy’s work threw up more questions than answers. The complex issues relating to family, national identity and our relationship to the asylum-seeking process were all brought to the fore, but without the neat finish that one might hope for. This was a bold and ambitious engagement with current socio-political issues.”
© Bryan Gerard Duffy