Artist

Fergus Feehily

Feehily’s painting explores a long-term preoccupation with blurring boundaries, often between non-representation and image, text and drawing. There is an undertow of anxiety and ambiguity in his work, an unsettled searching in its making.
This constant exploration leads to odd twists and turns- just when you think you are sure what you are getting, the work shifts again and takes another avenue.

Solo exhibitions include Pavilion at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne and The Return at the Goethe Institut, Dublin, all 2007. In 2008 he exhibited Makeshifts and Endpapers at the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany and Strange Mountain at the Green On Red Gallery. Group exhibitions include (I’m Always Touched) By Your Presence, Dear: New Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Show’s So Nice, Monya Rowe, New York, both 2007, Perspective, 2004 and Colour Chart, 2003, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. Since 2005 Feehily has been working with Ciarán ÓGaora of Zero-G on an ongoing series of publications, which occupy a space somewhere between artwork, catalogue and fanzine.

Public collections include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, An Chomhairle Ealaíon /The Arts Council and Limerick City Gallery.