DAISY DAISY

The Douglas Hyde Student Forum Presents: “Daisy Daisy.”

“Daisy, Daisy” is a group exhibition of visual arts by 12 members of The Douglas Hyde Student Forum 2024, which will run at The Complex Gallery from 9th-11th August.

The show incorporates the artist’s responses to the physical space of The Complex, and their ongoing exchange of ideas, artworks and conversations during the Student Forum’s yearly programme. Inspired by the eclectic history of The Complex as a place which was once an abbey, a synagogue, a banana marketplace and now an events space and gallery, the results have been responses to religion, inheritance, colonialism and nature.

The Student Forum 2024 brings together students and recent graduates across a range of disciplines from Europe, North and South America and Australia. The group meets monthly at The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art to respond to the current programme theme of the environment and land politics.

The artists work through sculpture, painting, installation, sound and photography in a way that responds to the site and context of a given space. The group’s output spans both individual and collaborative works, re signifying the gallery as a place of tension between past events and future concerns.

Participating artists are Alexander Williams, Bethsebah Ulmer, Conn McCarrick, Darly Benneker, Falon Weaver, Josie Sanne, Karen Rodrigues Enokibara, Manuel McCarthy Valderrama, Oisin Tozer, Samar Nezamabad, Shane Malone-Murphy, and Struàn Bell. Learn more about the artists and their practice here.

Opening night will take place on Friday, 9th August from 6-9pm. The exhibition will be open 12-5pm on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th August.