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BRÍAN CROTTY
Visual Artist, Filmmaker and Educator
County Cork, Ireland
PROFILE
Brían Crotty is a visual artist and filmmaker working across painting, moving image, cinema and installation. His practice examines memory, grief, temporality, landscape and cultural inheritance through a sustained engagement with the relationship between painting and film. He is currently completing a practice-based PhD in Fine Art at MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. He is also currently an Assistant Lecturer in Fine Art at SETU Wexford.
EDUCATION
2022–Present
PhD in Fine Art, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
Research question: How can hybrid methods across painting, cinema and generative AI position the oneiric imagination as a visual methodology for producing novel, affective artworks?
2009
Master of Fine Art, University of the Arts London
2007
BA in Art and Design, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2025
Solo Exhibition and screening of Drop, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, County Mayo
2024
Drop, St Peter’s, Cork International Film Festival, Cork
2019
Wise Men Say, Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork
2016
Solo Exhibition, MART Gallery, Dublin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS AND EVENTS
2024
Arts and Performing Arts Research Forum, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
2023
Faint/Sustain, Macroom Town Hall, Cork
2023
Touring Group Exhibition, MART Gallery, Dublin, and Macroom Town Hall, Cork
2023
My Portrait Is Me, creative workshop, Froebel Conference
2023
Postgraduate Arts Research Symposium, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
2018
Sights and Sounds, Dupont Underground Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
SELECTED FILM AND MOVING-IMAGE WORK
2024
Drop
4K digital film, 33 minutes 01 second
Screened at St Peter’s as part of Cork International Film Festival and subsequently presented at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar.
2018
Development of Human Dynamo
Screenplay by Brían Crotty, presented through TDC, Cork
SELECTED PAINTINGS
2024
Monster
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 200 × 200 cm
2024
Neon Funeral
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 200 × 200 cm
2024
Zeon Funeral
Oil, inks and resin on canvas, 20 × 20 cm
2023
Into the Blue Portal
Mixed media on canvas, 227 × 176 cm
2023
Under the Laburnum
Mixed media on canvas, 70 × 50 cm
2023
I Wait Like the Bleating Lamb for Mother
Mixed media on canvas, 70 × 70 cm
2023
Eggs on Toast
Mixed media on canvas, 70 × 70 cm
2023
Sugar Puffs for My Janet
Mixed media on canvas, 25 × 20 cm
SELECTED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
2024
“Dreaming, Generative AI and Cinema”
Arts and Performing Arts Research Forum, MTU
2023
Practice-based PhD research presentation
Postgraduate Arts Research Symposium, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
2020
Grand Prix, Best in Cork, Cork International Film Festival
Irish Film and Television Academy nomination
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Lecturer in Fine Art
South East Technological University, Wexford
Arts and Culture Support
Cork Education and Training Board
Lecturer in Education
Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education, Maynooth University
Fine Art and Arts Education Tutor
Teaching across painting, moving image, contemporary art practice and creative research
Former Vice-Coordinator
Youthreach Bantry
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT
Development and facilitation of arts and culture programmes within education and Youthreach contexts
Contributor to arts-policy development, creative education initiatives and learner-centred cultural programmes
Advocate and spokesperson for Dyslexia Ireland
Advisory Board Member, Kinia Education
RESEARCH AND PRACTICE INTERESTS
Painting
Cinema and moving image
Practice-based research
The oneiric imagination
Memory and cultural inheritance
Irish landscape and identity
Grief, ritual and collective experience
Hybrid visual methodologies
Arts education and socially engaged practice
LOCATION
County Cork, Ireland