Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin

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.