I am a photographic artist and commercial photographer based in Dublin, Ireland.
My personal work explores interests in; History, Memory, Chance, The Found Object and The Ruin. It is more concerned with understanding than with showing; with making pictures about something rather than of something.
I make pictures “…to honour what is greater than we are…in return we are given something perfect - a sense of inclusion.” Robert Adams
Technically, my influences as German; conceptually and aesthetically, they lie with the pictorial and poetic American traditions.
"An appreciation of the transience of things and the concern to rescue them for eternity is one of the strongest impulses in allegory." Walter Benjamin
What Walter Benjamin wrote about allegory is, I believe, also true of photography.
Commercial Work: I work in the areas of fine art documentation for artists, museums and galleries, portraiture, interiors, food and unit stills photography for film and television. I offer a consultancy and documentation service for fine-art archival digitisation projects for museums, galleries and other art collections. I can advise on file storage, legacy issues, hardware, software, etc.
Education:
M.F.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London (2:1) 2019.
M.A., "Art in the Contemporary World", N.C.A.D. (1:1) 2015
B.A. Qualifier, History of Art, University College Dublin, (1:1) 1990
Solo Exhibitions:
2020: “Protectorate”, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Ireland
2015: "The Stations", Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, Ireland.
Group Exhibitions:
2019: MFA Fine Art, Graduate Exhibition, Goldsmiths College, London.
2018: Group Exhibition: "Conspiracy of the Real - Artistic Perspectives in a Post-Truth Climate", Tenderpixel Gallery, London.2017:
2017: Group Exhibition: KAMERA8 Gallery, Wexford, Ireland.
2017: "NEU-GEN 2017: Towards Both the Parts", National College of Art and Design Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
COPYRIGHT: All of the images on this website are copyright Denis Mortell Photography and/or his clients, and may not be transferred, copied or reproduced in any form without the written permission of the copyright holder. If you are interested in acquiring usage rights (where possible) of any images on this website, please contact: info@denismortellphotography.ie
