Death in Dun Laoghaire

Gary Coyle

07 September 2005 - 01 October 2005

Kevin Kavanagh is pleased to present Death in Dun Laoghaire, an exhibition of new work by Gary Coyle.

In much of his previous work Gary Coyle has examined the photographic image. By deleting the narrative, Coyle’s resulting images became a starting point for a more personal story. In this exhibition, Coyle reverses this process, presenting a slide show of photographs of his hometown and recounting tales to accompany them.

In Death in Dun Laoghaire, Coyle combines many of the themes & subjects he has explored in previous exhibitions such as crime scene photographs, the urban landscape and an interest in the every day and local. Coyle’s latest work has its origins in his 2000 show Ad Marginem, where he turned a local activity, swimming in the Forty Foot in Sandycove, into a work of art. Through viewing his local environment in a different light, he realised that a viewer could not know why various images were made unless they were aware of the story behind the image.

In addition to his exhibition of photographs at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Gary Coyle will be performing Death in Dun Laoghaire, as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. The Slide show/ performance, which is a work in progress, runs from Tuesday 13th to Sunday 18th September, at 6.15pm at Film base.

Gary Coyle is a graduate of NCAD & the RCA London. Recent solo shows include, The Wild Wild Wood (2004), The Floating World (2002), and Ad Marginem (2000). In 2005 he was elected an associate member of the RHA. He has received various awards including Visual Arts Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, 2005, 2003, 2001, & 1998, Ballinglen Fellowship 2003, Artists Work Programme IMMA 1997-8, The RHA annual drawing prize 1999 and a Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship in 1995.

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