Justin Fitzpatrick, 'Perfume Pollen Plasma', 2024. Oil on linen, 140 x 180cm; 142 x 182 x 2.6cm framed. Image courtesy the artist and Kerlin Gallery.

24th October 2024 – Exhibition

JUSTIN FITZPATRICK: A Musical Instrument

A Musical Instrument is the first solo exhibition in Ireland by Justin Fitzpatrick, a young Irish artist based in France. Represented internationally by Galerie Sultana, Paris and Seventeen Gallery, London, Fitzpatrick has had recent critical success with solo exhibitions at The Tetley, Leeds (2022) and La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France (2024). Fitzpatrick works with painting, sculpture, text and video to explore human consciousness through the prism of biology. He presents us with elaborate and fantastical paintings of mysterious figures and mutating forms; sinewy lines evoke art nouveau detailing, fused with gothic and macabre elements. Fitzpatrick’s work is informed by the science around cellular structures (in particular, mitochondria), metaphysical poetry, mythologies, and an array of archetypal figures, often viewed through a lens of class and sexuality.

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24th October 2024
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Born in 1985 in Dublin, Ireland, Justin Fitzpatrick attended St. Oswald’s School of Painting in London from 2004–2007 and earned his MA in Fine Art Painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015. He has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and Europe, and participated in recent shows in New York and Mexico. Fitzpatrick had his first solo institutional exhibition, Alpha Salad, at The Tetley, Leeds in 2022. On 17 March 2024, his first institutional solo exhibition in France, Ballotta, opened at La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, near Paris (until 28 July).