About Darragh O Callaghan

About Darragh O Callaghan

Darragh is a visual artist from Ireland. Through her work she employs many media such as photography, video, performance and more recently drawings.

On the surface the work, home is referenced - a place of security, warmth and stability. In the work, however, there is an ominous underbelly – a sense that all is not quite right; a contestation of gender, of politics, of geography. At the core, there is a sharp edge to the exploration of content that is inherently about family, love, trust – but the work cuts through the surface of normal relations to these such things and probes deeper into a more profound territory of underlying truth that is unsettling and provocative.

The body becomes a place of action through which identity is forged. Actions on the body begin a discourse on resilience and overcoming. The video works of immersion and submersion, emotional disintegration, and the durational performances of weight upon the body, at once define strength and fragility, adaptability, stoicism, vulnerability and destruction. The significance of the textural materials and their usage act as a vehicle to express her ideas.

Here is a showreel of Darragh's work:

Contents of showreel:

Surface Tension, still of video installation
Pink Cock Room, still of video performance
Jackhammered, video performance
If Only You Could See, video
Proximidad, C-type print
Brick performance, live performance
Brick performance, live performance
Brick performance, live performance
All That's Inbetween, live performance
Building up, screenprint of live performance
Concrete Feet, screen print
Focus Point, ink drawing
House Pour, screen print
Nimbus Vice 2, Lightjet C-type print
Nimbus Vice 1, Lightjet C-type print
Desiccated Vessel, C-type print

You can see much more of Darragh's work at www.darraghocallaghan.com