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BIO
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Carl Giffney is an Irish visual artist b. Waterford 1983, he is a graduate of NCAD (sculpture 2007) and is the founder and director of Brown Mountain Diamond (2021+), an artist run space in rural Kilkenny. Carl Giffney’s work as a visual artist investigates social capital through empirical and performative research, carrying out activities like mining, beekeeping and modifying cars. He works in eclectic settings which have ranged from sea horse farms, to churches to motorways. Physical materials play very important roles in his socially engaged practice. Exhibitions include Excavations at HIAP Gallery Augusta, Helsinki (FI); PEINT at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre (IE); Partij voor Ierland, at Roodkapje Rotterdam (NL); and Sisyphus Americana, at the Hoffman LeChance Gallery, St. Louis (US).
From 2007-2016 he co-directed The Good Hatchery, an experimental art space in Co Offaly and from 2013-2018 he participated in Frontiers in Retreat, a multi-disciplinary residency platform in Finland, Scotland, Latvia, Serbia, Iceland, Spain and Lithuania. Since founding Brown Mountain Diamond in 2021, Giffney now lives and works in Co. Kilkenny.
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Please see NUACHT / NEWS* for upcoming works and some recent press.
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