Pádraig Spillane works with photography, collage, object-based assemblages, and installation. He explores desire through the intersections of imagery and mass-produced cultural forms. He views images as unstable, to be waywardly rearranged beyond their intended meanings and functions. His works are constructed using visual references from commercial display and collective imaginaries, exploring how images generate desires through their complex entanglements. Reorientating the drives and relations from aesthetic elements to consider suggestive potentials, his works perform as assemblies of disruption and appeal.
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Exhibitions include: Naked Truth, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, (2018); What Passes Between Us, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, (2017); ART WORKS 17, VISUAL, Carlow; Shills, 126 Gallery, Galway, (2016); This is not my voice speaking, CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, (2015); Magic Touch, CCA Derry – Londonderry, Northern Ireland, (2014); Mammouth, Treignac Projet, France, (2014); Fortnightly Features Presents, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, (2014); Periodical Review #3, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland, (2013); Artist as Curator – Spectacle in Photography, Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland, (2013); OUTBOX, Cork, Ireland, (2012).