David Fagan

Through performance, video and media installation David Fagan’s practice plays with ideas of personal friendship and shared community. His works amplify quiet human interactions using physical and temporal distance from their subject. Interacting with archive material allows a distance in time between artist and subject, while the use of communications equipment makes physical separation possible. In this way, regular human needs to connect and empathise are given a more perceptible form.

David Fagan was born in Dublin and lives and works in Glasgow. He holds an Master of Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art and a Joint Bachelor of Art in Sculpture & Art History from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Selected activity includes Self Improvement Quiz with John Waid at Gallery Onono, Rotterdam (2019) and Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (2020). small night zine—ARRANGEMENTS with Lily Cahill curated by James Merrigan (2019). Solo exhibitions include I have nada so far but I remain optimistic, Tactic, Cork (2016) curated by Aoife Power and He saw the world and was left wanting, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee (2015) curated by Emer Lynch.