About
Pádraic Barrett is an interdisciplinary Irish performance, film and installation artist whose work explores human and machine agency through bodily and technological frameworks that aim to open a space for reflection on the nature of our contemporary experience. These complex relationships are interrogated through film, built environments and found objects creating resonances on how the current world is constructed.
Education
2020-2021
MA (1:1) Art and Process, Crawford College of Art and Design
2020
IMMA Summer School Art and Politics #Statecraft
2015-2019
BA (1:1) Fine Art, Crawford College of Art and Design
Exhibitions
UPCOMING
GlogauAIR, Berlin Art Week, Berlin, September 2024
The Lab Gallery, INTER_SITE exhibition, Dublin, March 2025
Solo
Machination, The Municipal Corporation of Culture of San Joaquin, Santiago, Chile, April 2023
The Engineering of Consent II, The Marina Warehouse, Cork, July 2021
Group
Error: /Undefined, Pallas Projects Artist-Initiated Exhibition, Dublin, October 2023
Oscillation: An Altering Rhythm, Sample Studios, The Counting House, Cork, May 2023
Sluice Screens, IMT Gallery, London, December 2022
PADA x Sluice curator-led project, Lisbon Art Fair, Lisbon, November 2022
PADA Gallery group exhibition, Lisbon, August 2022
After Light: These Dark Citizens, The National Sculpture Factory, Cork, June 2022
Quare, Cork Midsummer Festival, St. Anne’s Park, Shandon, June 2022
INTER_SITE x Timpeall, K-fest, Kerry, June 2022
INTER_SITE x Old Queen’s Castle, Cork, May 2022
Pulsating P(l)ace, Faoin Spéir, Backwater Artists Group, Wandesford Quay, Cork, April 2022
OUTSIDE, National Sculpture Factory, Cork Centre for Architecture, Cork, November 2021
Oileán, Battery Observation Point, Spike Island, Cork, September 2021
Standstill, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, August 2021
A Soft Rupture, GOMA, Waterford, July 2021
INTER_SITE x Timpeal, The Marina Warehouse, Cork, June 2021
Oileán, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork, June 2021
COM,MA, No. 46 Grand Parade, Cork, December 2020
CONFLUENCE, The Lavit Gallery, Cork, January 2020
Backwater Artists Group, Members Show, Studio 12, Cork, December 2019
Dismantle, CCAD, Sharman Crawford St, Cork, June 2019
PRINT.ED #5 Espai Cultural Eina, Barra De Ferro, Barcelona, April 2019
TAUTOPHONY: Why do we rattle? Why do we sweat? The Kino, Cork, May 2018
Trouvaille, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, October 2015
Awards
Arts Council of Ireland Project Award, 2024
Cork City Council Individual Bursary Award, 2024
Arts Council of Ireland Individual Artist Bursary Award, 2023
Cork City Council Individual Bursary Award, 2023
Culture Ireland funding, 2023
K-fest Screaming Popes Prize Finalist, 2022
Cork City Council Individual Bursary Award, 2022
Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award, 2021
Arts Council of Ireland Project Award, 2021
RDS Visual Art Awards long list, 2021
Postgraduate Residency Award, Sample Studios, 2021
Valerie Gleeson Development Bursary Award, 2020
The Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, Backwater Artists Group, 2020
RDS Visual Art Awards long list, 2019
Lavit Gallery Student of the Year Award, 2019
Residencies
UPCOMING
GlogauAIR, Artist-in-Residence, Berlin, July - September, 2024
Previous
PADA Studios, Artist-in-Residence, Lisbon, July - August, 2022
The Gallery at No.46 Grand Parade Curatorial-Residency, Cork, 2019
Artist talk, Crawford College of Art & Design, November, 2023
Artist talk, INTER_SITE collective, Crawford College of Art & Design, December 2021
Artist talk, INTER_SITE collective, Sample Studios, August 2021