2023
Designed by Alex Synge at Alex Synge
Artist: Kian Benson Bailes
Curator: Sara Greavu
Photographer: Louis Haugh
Printer: Impress Printing Works, Dublin
Categories: Print / Identity / Exhibition / Social Media
Industry: Cultural
Tags: Visual art / Art
Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin was a new commission from Kian Benson Bailes comprising sculpture, digital and material collage, musical instruments, ceramics, textiles, woodwork, and live sculptural sound elements. Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin referenced Irish folklore, mythology, and craft traditions in an exuberant expression of rural queer experience.
The exhibition was accompanied by a publication including a commissioned essay by Iarlaith Ní Fheorais.