Dominic Thorpe

Dominic Thorpe is an Irish visual artist who works primarily through performance art. He also works with video, photography drawing, installation, collaborative and relational based processes. Much of his recent work addresses contemporary and historical human rights and institutional abuses. In recent years this has expanded to include explorations of direct and indirect participation in perpetration and resulting perpetrator trauma. Thorpe has shown and performed work extensively in Ireland and internationally including at the Bangkok Cultural Centre, Performance Space UK, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, Galway Arts Centre, SASA Gallery Adelaide and Mobius Boston. He has completed a number of residencies, including at the Nordic Arts Centre, Fire Station Artist Studios and was the first artist-in-residence in Humanities at University College Dublin. He has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, CREATE and Kildare County Council. Throughout his practice Thorpe has engaged with artist-run initiatives as well as inclusion- and education-based projects.