BASIC TALKS ~ Austin Hearne ~ May 2024

1pm, 3/5/2024

Hugh Lane Gallery

Basic Space is delighted to present Austin Hearne for our May BASIC TALK - 1pm on Friday the 3rd of May 2024 at Hugh Lane Gallery.

Austin Hearne is an artist from Dublin, living in Co. Wexford. He holds a MFA from NCAD (2016). Hearne is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in Photography, he comes from a family of Painters and Decorators and uses the stuff of this industry to makeworks and installations. His film work Whispers won Best Irish Short at the Gaze film festival (2022). Recent solos shows include Love Letters to Cardinal Raymo at Gorey School of Art (2021), Slabs at The Complex (2021), Requiem For Raymo at The Royal Hibernian Gallery (RHA)(2022-2023), Slabs II and Whispers at The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (2023) Confessions at Lismore Castle Arts (2023) and group shows Leap of Faith at The Glucksman (2024) with WEARTFETISHISTS (2022), PhotoIreland Festival (2022) and Speech Sounds at Visual Carlow(2022). Austin is a founding member and one half of the experimental queer goth music act Satin Shadow, they have released 3 albums to date. Austin’s work is held in private collections in USA, Europe and the OPW collection.

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BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.

Get your free ticket here: https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/basic-talks-manal-mahamid-3/