Stephen Brandes

Born in Wolverhampton, UK in 1966. Lives and works in Cork.



Education

1984 - 1985     Bournville College of Art

1985 - 1988     B.A., Bath Academy of Art

2000 - 2002     M.A., National College of Art and Design, Dublin



Selected Solo Exhibition

2008	‘Walpurgisnacht’, Rubicon Gallery Dublin Ireland 

2007	‘Why Travel? Right here is Fantastic’, ‘Rabid A’/Ardbia Gallery Galway Ireland 

2006	Klutz Paradiso, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin Ireland (with catalogue)

		Chutzparadiso, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork Ireland

2005	‘Travelogue’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

2004	‘Ways of Escape’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin 



Selected Group Exhibitions



2008	Beyond the Country, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork

		‘economic thought projects’, Ardbia Gallery, Berlin, Germany. (exhibition and 7" record launch 

with Canell / Watkins and others)

		'Everyday', The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland (as The Domestic Godless, with Mick O'Shea and Irene Murphy)



2007	Art Forum, Berlin (with Rubicon Gallery)

		Pulse New York Art Fair, USA (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)

		Maco Mexico Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)

		Dubin Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)

		Girl Power and Boyhood, Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway

		‘[C]artography – map making as an arform’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Cork Ireland

		Fenton Gallery, Cork Ireland

		'Position as Much as your Environment', Model Arts and Niland Gallery Sligo



2006	Cross the Line, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany

		Girl Power and Boy Hood, Kunsthallen Brandts, Denmark

		Arco Madrid Art Fair, Spain (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)

		Pulse New York Art Fair, USA (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)

		FIAC Paris France Art Fair (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)

		Art Cologne Art Fair, Germany (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)

		Pulse Miami Art Fair, USA (with Rubicon Gallery Dublin)



2005	‘live’, Interim.Projekte, Frankfurt Germany (with Nina Canell, Theresa Nanigian, Alex Rose) 

		(Curated by Rene Zechlin of Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork)

		Irish Pavillion, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy

		‘Vinyl’, Sullivan’s Quay Christian Brother’s School, Cork (Curated by Simon Cutts and 

		Coracle Press for Cork 2005 European City of Culture) 

		‘Superbia 2’, Douglas, Cork. For Cork 2005 European City of Culture (S. Brandes Co-Curator)

		‘C2’, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork

		Happy Holiday, Rubicon Gallery Dublin

		EuroJet Futures “05, RHA Gallery, Dublin

		FIAC 2005 Art Fair, Paris France (with Rubicon Gallery)

		On Leaving and Arriving, contemporary temporary artspace, Cardiff Wales



2004	‘Tir na nOg’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

		‘The Retreat’, City Limits, Melbourne

		‘ArtFutures’, Contemporary Art Society, City of London School, London

		‘Drawn’, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

		‘Something over the Sofa’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

		‘In-Between Space’, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co Cork



2003	‘Necessary Journeys’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

		‘Permaculture’, Project Art Centre, Dublin

		‘The National Gallery’, Goethe Institute, Dublin

		‘Pavilion’, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork

		‘Superbia’, Ballymun, Dublin. (S. Brandes Co-Curator)

		‘Artists/Groups’, Project Art Centre, Dublin

		(Incl. cooking performance as The Domestic Godless with Mick O’Shea)

		‘Flix’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin



2002	‘EuroJet Futures’, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin

		 ‘N.C.A.D. M.A. Show’, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin



1999	‘Drawing Thinking’, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin



1998	‘EV+A’, Limerick



1997 	‘A Metaphor for Ireland’, Fuller Gallery, Boston University.

1996	‘Art of the State - New work from the collection of the Office of Public Works, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork & tour



1989 	‘16th John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool



Commissions

2007 	The Tardis (a handmade book) - Cork City Council



Collections

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Office of Public Works, Ireland and

numerous private collections in Ireland and Europe, USA and elsewhere

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