Pádraig Grant
is a photographer by vocation
"Grant has a powerful point to make that hits you when you least expect it" BBC

When he is not being a photographer he is co-founder
and director of the development and humanitarian agency IceAid and
an active director of Irish contemporary dance company Myriad Dance

Pádraig was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1967
He divides his time between Ireland & New Zealand where
he lives with his partner Anna and their son Olly



 

EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS

2007 EXHIBITION and BOOK launch 'Awakening' at Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
2007 EXHIBITION 'Pieces of Africa' at Art Iceland Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

2006-2007 Dance Videography on 'RUINS', an international dance work exploring medieval ruins in USA and Ireland

2006 EXHIBITION Colour Like No Other October 2006 Shown at the Sony Centre Wexford

2006
EXHIBITION PIECES OF AFRICA 1989-2005 May 2006 Shown at Clotworthy Arts Centre N, Ireland & The Pigyard Gallery, Wexford, Ireland

2005
- AID PROJECT Co-founded ICEAID - a humanitarian agency specialising in development projects in Africa

1989- 2004 PHOTOJOURNALISM: Published in The New York Times, Irish Times and The Times (London) as well as in the Sunday Tribune (Dublin), Spotlight Magazine (Munich) and other media. Three collections have been published in book form.

2004 EXHIBITION: MOVING at The Courthouse Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow and Wexford Arts Centre. Nothing is ever quite as it seems in a photograph; even a fraction of a second defines a transition.

2002
EXHIBITION: SHADOWS AND LIGHT was shown at Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim and in Wexford Arts Centre. The images were made in Iran and the subject was their public spaces and how they used them. These photographs have a fine art feel to them with neatly framed and warm-toned fibre prints lending the collection an aesthetic that reflects the formal nature of the subject.

2002
COMMISSION: Wexford Arts Centre to facilitate Projecting Wexford, The results were projected on buildings around Wexford during the Opera Festival in Oct/Nov.

2001-2002
BOOK: A REMARKABLE FESTIVAL (with an introduction by Colm Toíbín) and the Exhibition FIFTY FROM THE FIFTIETH shown in the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin and in Wexford Arts Centre in 2002. The collection is now on permanent exhibit at the Theatre Royal in Wexford.

1999 EXHIBITION: THIS MUST BE THE PLACE at Wexford Vocational College made in New Zealand & the subject matter being people in landscape. Some prints were composites of two and three adjacently exposed negatives printed side-by-side as one entity.

1998 EXHIBITION: MEXICO, THE DISAPPEARED at Wexford Arts Centre and at Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim. I was suggesting that all is never as it seems in a photograph - the creation of a photograph is deliberate and the process is one of constant editing.

1997 EXHIBITION: MAWAZO at the Granary Theatre, Cork and then in Wexford at my own gallery space. This was a retrospective of African photographs made over a six year period.

1996 BOOK: THE MONKS OF MOUNT St. JOSEPHS by the Cistercian Order in Co. Tipperary.

Publisher: House of Munn 19941994 BOOK: AFRICAN SHADOWS was published (with a forward by author Billy Roche). The book was a collection of photographs made in central and north east Africa over a six year period between 1989-1995.

1992 EXHIBITION: SOMALIA at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin and at Wexford Arts Centre

1990 EXHIBITION: SUDAN at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin and at Wexford Arts Centre.

2001 WEBSITE: www.padraiggrant.com established as an online gallery featuring portfolios of past and present projects.

2001 COMMISSION: by Wexford Festival Opera to photograph the fiftieth opera festival.



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