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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 experimental art 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 artist run 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 and Spain.
Since founding Brown Mountain Diamond in 2021, Giffney now lives and works in the hills of North Co. Kilkenny.
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Please see NUACHT / NEWS* for upcoming works and some recent press.
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