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

2019 Women Cinemakers Magazine - Interview

2016 'Domestic Disturbance' Et Alia Gallery, text by Alex Schady

2015 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

2018 ‘End-to-End’ Fundación Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires

2016 'Domestic Disturbance', Et Alia Gallery, London 

2012 'Scéal Eile' (Another Story), Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2023

‘Intimacy’, SPACE, London (upcoming)

2022

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

2016  Presentation of art practice plus panel discussion Artwork Atelier, Manchester

2015  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