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Stephen Brandes

Stephen Brandes (born 1966). Lives and works in Co. Cork, Ireland. In 2005 he co-represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale and has continued to exhibit both nationally and internationally.
 Recent solo exhibitions include: Schmerzbau: it’s not all just misery, The Model, Sligo, 2022; The Trotskys in Kilsheelan and other histories of unreliable origin; South Tipperary Arts Centre, 2022; Le Place des Abysses, Centre Culturel Irlandais, 2020; Parc du Souvenir, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, 2016.

Stephen Brandes
Stephen Brandes
Stephen Brandes

Stephen Brandes’ practice crosses several artistic disciplines including painting, drawing, video and sculpture. Representational forms and styles from contradictory elements of art history are thrown into conflicting proximity, to present a body of work that travels the space between comedy and tragedy. Brandes’ recent sculptural work, executed within the NSF included a large walk-through architectural collage built from various timbers, as an homage to the German artist, Kurt Schwitters whose own attempts at the same were variously destroyed through the course of his lifetime.

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