DOMOBAAL

Born 1978, Ireland
lives/works in Cork.

Education

2005 – 2008 PhD by Practice in Fine Art, Kingston University.

2004 MA (distinction) Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London.

2000 BA (1:1) Fine Art, Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland.

1999 Diploma (distinction) Fine Art, Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland.

Academic Appointments

2010 (ongoing) Lecturer in Fine Art, Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland.

2008 – 2009 Lecturer (Fine Art), National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland.

2007 – Lecturer (Art History) Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, Ireland.

2007 – 2008 Cork Film Centre Residency.

2005 – 2006 Lecturer (Fine Art) Kingston University, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey, UK.

Solo Exhibitions

2011: Great Good Places, domobaal (publication).

2010: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland.

2008: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland.

2007: Aftermath, domobaal, London, essay by Jonathan Miles.

Group Exhibitions (since 2004)

2011: Void: Volume, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland.

2011: Irish Wave 2, Siemens Art Space, Beijing, China.

2010: Royal Hibernian Academy Futures 10, Dublin, Ireland.

2010: Postcards from the Celtic Tiger: Martin Cregg, Jennifer Cunningham, Mark Curran, David Farrell, Sean Hillen, Maurice Galway, Sarah Iremonger, Maximilian Le Cain, Danny McCarthy, Sandra Minchin, Ciara Moore, Harry Moore, Richard Mosse, Jackie Nickerson, Ailbhe Ni Bhriain, Eoin O'Conaill curated by Peggy Sue Amison and Chris Hurley, Xuhui Arts Museum, Hengshan Road, Shanghai China.

2010: Kilruddery Film Festival with Grace Weir, John Latham and J. Tobias Anderson, curated by Mermaid Arts Centre, Ireland.

2010: Bittersweet, with Franko B, Doug Dubois, Breda Lynch, John Kelly and others, Doswell Gallery, Cork (travelling).

2010: Sophisticated Boom Boom (in b&w), Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Peter Linde Busk, Stephen Dunne, Lothar Götz, Heide Hinrichs, Steve Johnson, Sharon Kivland, Ansel Krut, Jeffrey TY Lee, Siân Pile, Felicity Powell, Mark Prince, Lizi Sanchez, Shaan Syed and Mhairi Vari, domobaal.

2009: Time is a Sausage (A Show of Shows) domobaal.

2009: Skibbereen Arts Festival, County Cork, Ireland; screening of 'Immergence' and 'Residuum'.

2009: In Search of Utopia, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Michelle Browne, Dorothy Cross, Dennis Del Favero, Cao Fei, Louise Manifold, curated by Maeve Mulrennan. Nuns Island Theatre, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland.

2009: Margenes, Experimental Film Festival, curated by Esperanza Collada and Maximilian Le Cain, La Enana Marron, Madrid, Spain.

2009: Darkness Visible, curated by Ann Mulrooney and Breda Lynch, with George Bolster, Andy Harper, Angela Huntbach, Breda Lynch, Alice Maher, Eoin Mc Hugh, Ann Mulrooney and Kate Street. Cavan Arts Office, touring to Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland. (catalogue)

2009: Art Rotterdam, STAND projects, De Expeditie/Amsterdam, domobaal/London, Tatjana Pieters/OneTwenty/Gent.

2009: Cork Art Trail, Cork Film Centre screenings, Various Venues, Cork, Ireland.

2009: No End in Sight, with Max Hymes, Adam Thompson, Annabel Elgar, Richard Wathen & Simon Willems, Vegas Gallery, London.

2008: Refuge, group exhibition with Annabel Elgar, Elina Brotherus, Hanna Brotherus, Lauri Astala at The Wapping Project, London.

2008: STAND, De Expeditie/Amsterdam, domobaal/London, Tatjana Pieters/OneTwenty/Gent at Villa La Tourelle, Oostende, Belgium.

2008: No Borders (Just N.E.W.S.*) 29 young artists from Europe, selected by the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art, University of Cuenca, Spain.

2008: No Borders (Just N.E.W.S.*) CACT, Thessaloniki, Greece (catalogue).

2008: Darkness Visible curated by Ann Mulrooney, with Alice Maher, Breda Lynch, Eoin McHugh, Ann Mulrooney & others, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland (catalogue).

2008: No End In Sight, with Ruth Claxton, Max Hymes, Adam Thompson, Richard Wathen, Simon Willems, Galerie Polaris, Paris.

2008: 13+ Florence Lynch Gallery, New York video exhibition with Marcel Dinahet, Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Haris Epaminonda, Ron Haselden and others.

2008: From the Canvas to the Screen, curated by Berta Sichel, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (with Jacco Olivier, Malcolm Le Grice, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville), touring to Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Unión Fenosa, La Coruña, Caixa Forum, Tarragona, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain.

2007: The Garden of Eden has Vanished They Say, with Elizabeth Magill, Janet Mullarney, Kathy Prendergast, Walker and Walker & others, curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey, Cavan County Museum, Ireland.

2007: Drawing Breath, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia.

2007: From the Canvas to the Screen, curated by Berta Sichel, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (with Jacco Olivier, Malcolm Le Grice, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville), touring to CACT, Centre of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2007: Preview Berlin, with Haris Epaminonda, Ansel Krut, Miho Sato, domobaal booth.

2007: Aftermath, Art Trail 2007, Cork, Ireland.

2007: Oyster Grit, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Haris Epaminonda, Ansel Krut, Jeffrey T Y Lee, Lucy Pawlak, Miho Sato, Mhairi Vari, essay by Rebecca Geldard, domobaal gallery.

2007: Art Rotterdam, with Haris Epaminonda, Ansel Krut, Miho Sato, Ron Haselden, domobaal booth.

2007: Painting and Cinema, Cuenca, curated by Berta Sichel, Reina Sofia Museum, Spain.

2006: Art Rotterdam, domobaal booth.

2006: Jerwood Drawing Prize, 10 year anniversary prizewinners exhibition, London (touring to Australia, Singapore, UK). Still in Motion, Leonard St. Gallery, London.

2006: Still in Motion, with Vishal Shah and Renata Kudlacek Leonard St. Gallery, London.

2006: Tekenlust, Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belguim.

2005: Concourse Projection Series, curated by Clíodhna Shaffrey, Dunlaoighre, Dublin, Ireland.

2005: Peripheral Visions, curated by Nigel Rolfe and Cliodhna Shaffrey, European Capital of Culture International Video Selection, Cork, Ireland.

2005: FEM 5 Madrid, Spain.

2005: Jaktuu … British Council, curated by Brett Rogers, Helsinki Photography Festival, Finland.

2005: Passing Through, curated by Patrick T. Murphy, with Linda Quinlan, Alice Maher, Maud Cotter, Yvonne McGuinness, Martin Healy and others, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (catalogue).

2005: International Video Festival, Bochum, Germany.

2005: 13+ (video exhibition) domobaal, London.

2005: Jerwood Drawing Prize, touring to: Birmingham, Hull, The Lowry Gallery, Manchester. winner: student prize award, for 'Immergence' (catalogue).

2005: Syncopations, I6 UK Artists, Wetterling gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.

2004: New Media Art Festival Seoul, Korea.

2004: Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London (catalogue).

2004: Tindell Effect Hackney, London (catalogue).

2004: Davis Langdon, selected show, Holborn, London.

2004: World Wide Video Festival, 2004 Amsterdam, Holland.

Essays, Press and Publications

2011: Great Good Places, a set of four chapbooks, with 34 stills from video, domobaal editions 2011.

2011: Circa Magazine, Ireland, review of 'Futures 10' by Dr. Paul O'Brien, NCAD Dublin (issue no 131).

2011: Abridged 'Nostalgia is a loaded gun', art and poetry magazine, Derry, Ireland, January/February 2011.

2010: 'Future forecast' a review written by Aidan Dunne, published in The Irish Times, of Futures 10 at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 4 September 2010.

2010: 'Future forecast' Ruth Carroll on Futures 10 at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, published in the Irish Arts Review magazine, Autumn 2010 issue.

2008: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, review by Aidan Dunne of solo show at the Butler gallery, Kilkenny, Irish Times.

2008: Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, review by Eimear McKeith of solo exhibition at The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland published in Circa, Autumn Issue, 2008

2008: Darkness Visible, a review by Fergal Gaynor of Darkness Visible at the Galway Arts Centre, published in Circa, Winter Issue, 2008

2008: Aftermath, review of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's solo show, 2007, by Maximilian Le Cain, published in Experimental Conversations an online journal of cinema and video.

2008: Faqmag, online publication (www.faqmagazine.net)

2008: Palimpsest, by Clíodhna Shaffrey, essay for Butler Gallery solo exhibition.

2008: Review by Brendan Maher, of Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's solo exhibition at the Butler Gallery Kilkenny, Ireland. Published in Start, Arts and Culture of the South East, Summer 2008.

2008: No Borders (Just News*) exhibition catalogue, published by AICA, Paris.

2007: TankTV, intraveloving (www.tank.tv)

2007: Cork Art trail catalogue.

2007: The Trembling Image, by Jonathan Miles, essay for Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's solo exhibition: Aftermath, domobaal editions.

2005: Bochum Film Festival, catalogue.

2005: Artists Newsletter (UK) November.

2005: Jatkuu …, exhibition catalogue, British Council.

2005: Peripheral Visions, exhibition catalogue.

2005: Passing Through, exhibition catalogue, Glucksman gallery, Cork, Ireland.

2005: Syncopations, exhibition catalogue, Wetterling gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.

2004: Jerwood Drawing Prize, catalogue.

2004: World Wide Video Festival catalogue.

2001: Louis Le Brocquy and the Tain, New Hibernian Review, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA (quarterly journal).

Awards, Bursaries and Residencies

2010: Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Artists Bursary Award.

2009: Artist in Residence, Cork Film Centre 2007–9.

2007: Cork City Council Artist's Development Bursary.

2005: Bochum Film Institute Award.

2004: Jerwood Student Prize for Drawing.

2004: Cork Film Centre Video Art Award.

2004: Alf Dunne Award, MA Show, Royal College of Art.

2004: Tim Mara Award, MA Show, Royal College of Art.

2004: Augustus Martin Award, MA Show, Royal College of Art.

2003: Linklaters Award, Interim Show, Royal College of Art.

2002: Cultural Exchange Award, Newfoundland travel grant.

2000: Crawford Student of the Year Award, Cork Institute of Technology.

2000: Mercier Thesis Award, Cork Institute of Technology.

2000: Moving Image Award, Cork Film Centre.

2000: Cork Printmakers Bursary.

2000: Arts Council Travel Award.

1999: Mercier Seminar Paper Award, Cork Institute of Technology.