Mark Garry

Born and currently based in Ireland Garry’s work stems from a fundamental interest in observing how humans navigate the world and the subjectivity inherent in these navigations. While Mark uses a variety of media and mechanisms in his practice he primarily focuses on institution-based installations. These delicately considered site-specific installations are measured and quiet, requiring meticulous systems of construction. They combine physical, visual, sensory and empathetic analogues, creating arrangements of elements that intersect the space and form relationships between a given room and each other.

These installations incorporate a specific range of natural and craft materials and processes such as plants, thread, beads, woodcarvings and manufactured materials such as colored contact, origami, and mechanical musical mechanisms. Spectrums of coloured threads are in many cases the central element of these installations. This practice is a generative process and involves the stretching and consolidating of the physical capabilities of the materials he work’s with, both as individual entities and when combined with other materials and objects. Through his intervention one's perception of these materials is altered fundamentally from their utilitarian origins.

Mark Garry was one of the artists who represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Recent selected exhibitions and projects include: ENart Taichung, Taiwan, 2013; Islands, Galleria Civica di Moderna, Milan, 2013; a permanent commission for The MAC, Belfast, 2012; “All Humans Do”, White Box, New York, The Model Niland, Sligo, 2012; Stephen Freidman Gallery, London, 2011; Cave, Detroit, 2011; University of Ulster gallery, Belfast, 2011; “Brittleness”, Maria Stenfors, London, 2011; “Phoenix” curated by Caroline Hancock, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, 2011; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, 2010; Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2010; Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesborough, 2009; Frequency: Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, 2009; Flower Power, Tai Turin Art International, CRAA Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Torino, Italy, 2009; Inner and Outer Space, The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, 2008; Green Screen: The Institute of Contemporary art Newtown, Sydney Australia, 2008; Gallery 2 The Paradise, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, 2006; The foundation to life, New York, curated by Cathy Siegel, 2006; Glass Box, Paris, 2006; Ireland at Venice, Venice Biennial, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice (Representing the Republic of Ireland), 2005, which traveled to Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2006. Garry has forthcoming solo show in Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2015 and The Model, Sligo, 2014 along with a group show in Sommer & Kohl, Berlin 2013.