Valerie Driscoll is a multidisciplinary, Irish artist working mostly with sculpture, video, photography and performance. Driscoll’s research-based practice operates in the tension between the thrill and the terror of technicity and reflects on the relationship between the human body and the digital landscape. Grounded in materials and labour, Driscoll evokes contemporary philosophy to highlight the socio-political, as well as the personal. Conjuring the gestures of machines, such as repetition and production, Driscoll playfully breaks down the barriers between public/private, human/machine, contemporary/traditional.
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
Selected by Saatchi Gallery for ‘Top 100 New UK Artists’
Irish Arts Council Agility Award (x 2)
Art Gemini Prize, Public Choice Award, Trispace Gallery, London
Deutsche Bank Fine Art Photography Award - finalist
Voted Best in Show, Miniscule, Oblong Gallery, London
Arts Council England International Grant
Winner of Surrealism at The Barbican Art Centre, London
Shortlisted for FutureMap at the Zabludowicz Collection, London
Emerging Artist Award, Strata Building, London
EDUCATION
2015 MA Contemporary Photography and Philosophy Central Saint Martins College of Art, London
2010 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Camberwell College of Art, London
1996 BA (Hons) Education, University of North London
RESIDENCIES
Fundacion Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
SaLE Docks, Venezia
Market Estate Project, London
Burren College of Art, Clare -Artist in Residence
PUBLICATIONS
Women Cinemakers Magazine - Interview
'Domestic Disturbance' Et Alia Gallery, text by Alex Schady
None of the Above, Issue 2
Super Massive Black Hole, Issue 7 'Colour'
The Guardian, Market Estate Project
Circa Magazine, Review of 'Sceal Eile' at Courthouse Gallery written by Fiona Woods
The Clare Champion, ‘The Same but Different’, review of ‘Scéal Eile’
Vision - Aussicht aufs Leben, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Beyond the End Open Gallery, London
2020 End-to-End Fundación Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
2018 Domestic Disturbance, Et Alia Gallery, London
2010 Scéal Eile (Another Story), Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
Haus Bastian, Centre for Cultural Education, Berlin (live performance)
Intimacy, SPACE, London
International Forum of Art, Greece
Experimental Film and Video, Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Soeul
London Open at The Whitechapel Gallery, London (shortlist screen)
Flourescent, Soho Visual Arts Festival, London
Self Portrait La Fundación ‘Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
Behind the Static, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Fix19 Project Space, Belfast
Cabaret for International Women's Day Cork City, Ireland - Live Performance
Body Talk The Complex Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
StudioBook, ArtWork Atelier, Manchester, UK
None of the Above, La Casa Amarillo, Malaga, Spain
New Weapons, Blitz Gallery, Malta
Granfalloon Central Saint Martins College of Art, London
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
Space for Change, Parlour Gallery Project Space, London
Family, Susak Biennale, Croatia
Miniscule Oblong Gallery, London (voted best in show)
Vision – Aussicht aufs Leben, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Germany
CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS
Presentation of art practice plus panel discussion Artwork Atelier, Manchester
Conference 'Photography in the 21st Century', University of the Arts London, Paper: Photography, the Information Machine and the Collective Apparatus
Artist Talk and Panel Discussion, Soho Visual Arts Festival, London
COLLECTIONS
Fundacion Ace Para el Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
Private collections - Argentina, Germany, Ireland and UK