Also known as Sonofafox, Brian Giles is a Dublin-based printmaker and a graduate of the Institute Of Art, Design and Technology in Dún Laoghaire (IADT). A member of Dublin’s Damn Fine Print Studio, Brian has been an innovative presence in screen printing, utilising collage, photography, colour layering, and more.
Creating new colours through layering and experimenting with bitmaps has always fascinated the printmaker, and now he’s taken inspiration from the complexities of colour and design found within Ireland’s natural flora, such as the sunflowers of the glasshouses of Glasnevins Botanical Gardens. Influenced by his photographs, Brian has created twelve unique designs, printing the finished designs in a CMYK set-up.
With these new prints, and in the wake of COVID-19, Brian seeks to inspire positivity through colour. He embraces an ethos of growth, rebirth, and affirmation, innate in the natural world.
The new collection was launched last December at Dublins Studio 10 Gallery. Alongside Irish Artist Luke Reidy, the exhibition presented two different, yet creative and insightful conceptions of the Irish natural world. Luke’s crisp, simplified iterations of West Clare’s rugged cliffs and seascapes met Brian’s vibrant and complex extrapolations of Glasnevin’s astounding Botanical Gardens, and, by their contrasts, they united to ring the bell of the Irish natural world, chiming with a sense of positivity and endurance.
Layers is now available to purchase through sonofafox.com.
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