Valerie Driscoll works with digital media, sculpture and performance to devise strategies for the interlacing of visual culture and political philosophy. Her current research-based practice examines the relationship between the human body and the technological. Driscoll uses popular culture, online environments and contemporary philosophy to explore machinic elements of the human body and juxtaposes this with human elements of machines. Playing with our reliance on technology as well as our desire to use technology to make order out of chaos, Driscoll deconstructs the relationship and examines the socio-political as well as the personal.
Driscoll studied Contemporary Photography, Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins College of Art, London where she was awarded an MA. Her work is regularly exhibited internationally and is supported by the Arts Council.
AWARDS
Arts Council of Ireland Grant Award
Art Gemini Prize Public Choice Award
Strata SE1 Emerging Artist Award
Winner of ‘Surrealism’ Barbican Art Centre with Jotta Magazine, London
Arts Council England International Grant
Deutsche Bank Fine Art Photography Award, London- finalist
EDUCATION
2015 MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies, Central Saint Martins, London
2010 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Camberwell College of Art, London
RESIDENCIES
Fundacion Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Artist in Residence
Artist Residency - SaLE Docks, Venezia
Market Estate Project, London
Burren College of Art, Clare -Artist in Residence
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Women Cinemakers Magazine - Interview
2018 'Domestic Disturbance' Et Alia Gallery, text by Alex Schady
2017 None of the Above, Issue 2
2011 Super Massive Black Hole, Issue 7 'Colour'
2010 Vision - Aussicht aufs Leben, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
Circa, Review of 'Sceal Eile' at Courthouse Gallery written by Fiona Woods
SOLO SHOWS
2020 ‘End-to-End’ Fundación Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
2018 'Domestic Disturbance', Et Alia Gallery, London
2014 'Scéal Eile' (Another Story), Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024
‘Intimacy’, SPACE, London (upcoming)
2023
International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece
2020
‘Self Portrait’ La Fundación ‘Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
Fix19 Project Space, Belfast
2019
'Cabaret' for International Women's Day Cork City, Ireland - Live Performance
'Behind the Static', Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2017
'Body Talk' The Complex Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
StudioBook, ArtWork Atelier, Manchester, UK
'None of the Above', La Casa Amarillo, Malaga, Spain
2016
Flourescent, Soho Visual Arts Festival, London
'New Weapons', Blitz Gallery, Malta
‘Granfalloon’ Central Saint Martins College of Art, London
2015
Art Auction by Sotheby's, Lethaby Gallery, London
'New Living Art', Steambox Gallery, Dublin
Art Gemini Prize, London (Public Choice Award Winner), Trispace Gallery, London
'Tomorrow Today', Bargehouse, London
2014
'Space for Change' Susak Biennale, Croatia
'Miniscule' Oblong Gallery, London
'Vision – Aussicht aufs Leben', Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Germany
CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS
2019 Presentation of art practice plus panel discussion Artwork Atelier, Manchester
2017 Conference 'Photography in the 21st Century', University of the Arts London, Paper: Photography, the Information Machine and the Collective Apparatus
COLLECTIONS
Fundacion Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
Private collections - Argentina, Germany, Ireland and UK