Dominic Thorpe
What Dominic Thorpe addresses is sentient information, the senses and the fault lines between what is locked in and what is manifest, what is manipulated. In video and mixed media, photography and performance, Thorpe pushes the matrix of human endurance and the senses, exploring power and vulnerability.
Dominic Thorpe is an Irish visual artist who works primarily through performance art in a range of processes and contexts: drawing, video, photography, installation, collaborative and relational based processes. He has shown and performed work nationally and internationally, including Bangkok Cultural Centre, Performance Space UK, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Galway Arts Centre, SASA Gallery Adelaide and Mobius Boston. He has completed a number of residencies, including at the Nordic Arts Centre, Fire Station Artist Studios Dublin and was the first artist in resident in humanities at University College Dublin. Recent work addresses contemporary and historical human rights and institutional abuses and is currently undertaking a PhD (Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship at the University of Ulster) researching representations of perpetrators in performance art from Ireland. Awards include Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, CREATE & Kildare County Council. He has worked with the Performance Collective and at KCAT Arts & Study Centre Kilkenny & is currently on the board of Arts & Disability Ireland. His work is in a number of public collections.