Curriculum Vitae
Born – 1970
Email – egg.brian@gmail.com
Website – www.brianhegarty.com
Education
1990 – 1994 D.I.T College of Marketing & Design Fine Art, Dublin Ireland
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Objects & Oscillations – Drogheda Arts Festival
2016 I’ll be your mirror – Ashford Gallery. RHA, Dublin
2014 I’ll be your mirror – (Abridged version) – Cultural Centre Vanha Paukku.Lapua, Finland
I’ll be your mirror (Abridged version) – Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Co Loath
2011 Strange Victories – South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel
Then & Now – Droichead Arts Centre – Drogheda, Co Louth
2010 The Pattern of Purpose – Joinery Gallery – Dublin
2008 Between Accident & Intent – Carlinn Gallery, Carlingford, Co. Louth
2005 From Bone to Satellite – Catherine Hammond Gallery, West Cork.
2002 The Presence of Absence – Vine Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
2001 Recent Works – Mullingar Arts Centre.
Open Book- Longford Arts Centre.
2000 Time Minds – Basement Gallery, Dundalk. Co Louth
Time Minds- Droichead Arts Centre. Drogheda. Co. Louth
Selected & Group Shows
2022 Trace – Group show- Highlanes Gallery , Drogheda
2021 Borrowed Ground – Group Show – Droichead Arts Centre
Taisc Lu – Cuators Choice ( Louth Council Collection ) – Curated by Claire Halpin and Michelle Hechler – Basement Gallery dundalk , Droichead Arts Centre
2019 Borrowed Ground – Open studio project – Droichead Arts Centre
Orientation – Droichead arts Centre
2018 Waxing Lyrical – Other Voices music festival – Dingle. Co Kerry
2015 COE ’15 – Claremorris, Mayo
2014 Second Time Around – Museum of Shenandoah Valley (MSV) Winchester, Virginia, USA
Reframing the Domestic in Irish Art – Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Co Louth
2013 One Hundred +, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
Eigse 2013 – Visual, Carlow, Ireland
Boyle Arts Festival – Invited, Roscommon, Ireland
MOM 3 Block T, Smithfield, Dublin
COE ’13 (Shortlisted)
2012 Wexford Opera Festival – Group Exhibition – Greenacres gallery
Running with Scissors – Basement project space, Cork
COE ’12
R.H.A Annual Exhibition
2011 Recent Acquisitions – Highlanes Gallery, Co. Louth
COE ’11 – Claremorris, Mayo (Curated by Chris Hammond Director of
MOT International)
R.H.A Annual Exhibition
2010 Salon 10 – MRA Project Space, London, UK
Assembly – Highlanes Gallery, Co. Louth
Rua Red – Summer Group Show
Nexus Project 2. – Drogheda, Co. Louth
2009 R.H.A Annual Exhibition – Dublin
Landfill art Project – Pennsylvania, USA
2008 Winter group show – Droichead Arts Centre
Small Works/Group show – Carlinn Gallery, co. Louth
2007 Iontas – small works exhibition, Sligo
R.H.A Annual exhibition, Dublin
2006 Treat – Small works Group Show, Talbot Gallery, Dublin
Iomha – Drogheda/Dundalk/Finland (Curated by Cliona Shaffrey/Ruairi Ni Cuiv)
R.H.A Annual Show
2005 Drogheda Arts Festival, Co. Louth
2004 Iomha – Drogheda/ Dundalk
10 Years After (Curator) Droichead Arts Centre
R.H.A Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2003 R.H.A Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2002 Urban Abstracts – (2 Person Show) Cross Gallery, Dublin
Ferment – Disused Warehouse, Dublin
From Ritual to Romance, Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast.
2001 New Irish Art – Erin Devine Gallery, Kentucky, USA
2000 The Irish Are Coming – Vine Gallery, Kentucky, USA
1999 Quadrant – Belltable, Limerick. (Curated by Paul O Reilly)
Saloon – Pallas Studios, Dublin.
Iontas Small Works Exhibition – Sligo, Limerick, Belfast
Scoip – Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Kerry
1998 Oireachtas – Guinness Hopstores, Dublin R.H.A Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
Sound / Music Releases
2021 Post Merriment Anxiety – Self titled – Art edition Lathe cut vinyl
2021 Cut off point – All as it seems – CDR with DRAG ACID art-zine
2017 The Joy Fracture – Split cassette release – Art edition in wooden box
Exhibition Curation
2021 Street Cinema – Short films by Conor McMahon – Droichead Arts Centre off site commision 2021
2021 Where are we now ? ( Online ) 12 comissioned artists 12 sound work – Live Stream and podcasts – Drogheda arts Festival
2020 Connections – strand 3 – 10 artists 10 spaces – Culture night 2020
2016 Mark Templeton & Kyle Armstrong – Extensions A/V exhibition Droichead arts Centre
NEXUS ARTS
Co – Curator with Nexus Arts 2011 – 2014
2014 Now & Everything in between – Group exhibition Droichead Arts Centre / Galway Arts Centre
2014 Sleep Concert – Steven Stapleton – Townley Hall
2013 In sight – In sound – Group a/v exhibition – Barlow House. Drogheda
2013 Gap Fill, More Beauty, More Happiness – Alan Magee – Methodist Church, Drogheda
2013 Erica il Cane – Mural & Exhibition – Droichead Arts Centre
2013 Contract Abstractions- Dee Walsh – Vacant retail unit, Drogheda
2012 Lost for Words – Gee Vaucher plus Penny Rimbaud performance – Droichead Arts Centre
2012 Dedication Piece – Stefan Riebel, Billboard , Georges Square, Drogheda
2011 I don’t know who I am – Adrian & Shane – Vacant retail unit, Drogheda
2011 Free Art – Street event – Noel Feeney & Darragh Donoghue
Awards
2022 Fingal Artsist support scheme
Agility Grant – Arts Council
Create louth – Artist support
2021 – Agility Grant – Arts Council
Arts Act Grant – louth County council
Shortlist for Platform 31
2014 Arts Act Bursary – Louth County Council
2013 Curator in Residency Award with Nexus Arts – Arts Council
2006 – 2011 Arts Act Grant – Louth County Council
2005 Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary – Louth County Council
2002 Art-flight – Arts Council
1999 – 2001 Studio Rental Assistance – Arts Council
2021
Arts Act Grant – Louth County Council
Selected Reviews / Reading
2020 Intrinsic Connection – VAI Nov/ Dec
2008 Irish Arts Review,
2002 Dialogue – Arts in mid-west America,
2000 Circa magazine
‘thirtythree-45’
Event Producer
2021 – Norman Westberg ( SWANS ) Ambient guitar show – in association with Droichead Arts Centre
2019 Nurse with Wound – Drogheda arts Festival
2018 Spectrum ( Sonic Boom ) – Drogheda Arts Festival
2017 Thor & Friends – Drogheda arts Festival
Thor Harris – Ocean of Despair – Spoken word & interview – Drogheda Arts Festival
The Bonk with We Eat Electric Light – Live performance – Cassette release launch.
2016 David Holmes – DJ set, Drogheda Arts Festival
2015 Grit, noise & revolution – An evening with Wayne Kramer (Mc5) Drogheda Arts Festival
DRAG ACID Publications
2021 Earth angel & Snowy – Fran Cassidy
2020 A fire in the sky – Diarmuid MacDiarmuda
Always check the mail – Sarah La Puerta
A hunger blowing up from the inland – Conor MacMahon
Still time left to destroy the memories – Jason O Reilly
All as it Seems – Brian Hegarty
Music releases
2020 Post Merriment Anxiety – PMA – Art edition lathe cut record.
Afterwardness – Self titled album – vinyl record
2018 The Bonk – Seems to be a verb – Cassette release – Boxed Art Edition
2017 Dublingo / Kevin Nolan – Split cassette release – Boxed Art Edition
2017 Arc Pioneer / The Joy Fracture – Split cassette release – Boxed Art Edition
Miscellaneous
2020 Founding member of Borrowed Ground Art Collective
2019 Song trail – Drogheda arts Festival 2018 (Audio Editing, ) for Upstate Theatre
2019 Art Share – Contemporary Art Library & space at the Droichead arts Centre
2016 Proto Punks – (Audio Editing, Soundscape) for Upstate theatre
2015 Founding member of Print Point print studios, Barlow house, Drogheda