Fergus Feehily Fortune House

Fergus Feehily’s exhibition is deliberately situated in the deepest Dublin winter. It will evoke ideas of illumination through associations with places as far-reaching as the megalithic site of Newgrange during solstice and the neon streets of Shinjuku, Tokyo. These locations have personal significance to the artist and they bridge time and memory, through the exhibition and outwards into the city.

In his studio practice and daily life Feehily is a kind of flâneur, both metaphorically and in actuality, and his paintings illuminate a constellation of broader cultural connections, from the edges and margins. Alongside the overlooked Sunlight Chambers building on Dublin’s Essex Quay, certain artefacts and moments inform Feehily’s work for TBG+S, be it Elizabethan Dr. John Dee’s magic obsidian mirror in the British Museum, or a grainy video of an ecstatic street preacher.

Fergus Feehily’s recent solo exhibitions include: Lulu, Mexico City (2022); La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels (2020); Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne. (2019) and Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (2018). His work has been shown at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Dallas Museum of Art; X Museum, Beijing; Tokyo Opera City; June, Berlin; Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; Capital, San Francisco; the Douglas Hyde and IMMA, Dublin; Sydney Non-objective; and Two Rooms, Auckland. Last year saw the publication of a major new monograph on the artist by Zolo Press, Mexico City/Brussels.