Francis Fay holds an MFA | Art in the Digital World, NCAD; BA Fine Art, DIT; BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts from Park Lane College, Leeds. He is a founding member and co-curator of Livestock Performance Art Platform– a live art event. Fay spent his Erasmus year at Khib, Bergen Academy of Art. He is a member of IVARO, a studio member of MART Dublin, and part of the team at Project Arts Centre. He has collaborated with the award-winning theatre company brokentalkers as both stage manager and scenographer on productions such as The Blue Boy, Silver Stars and Have I No Mouth. He has toured many countries with these shows including Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, and Russia. Recent projects include 'Your Self-Made Super Human', his 2019 performance at Wexford Arts Centre. Fay's video trilogy, 'Queering the Landscape', developed at a Tyrone Guthrie Centre residency, premiered the same year at the 'Diffraction' screening, 126 Gallery, Galway. In 2016, he was commissioned by Arts Council Ireland to perform at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, in 'Future Histories', a response to the 1916 Rising. “Using his body as a conduit for communion, Fay aims to reframe physical presence, offering rhizomatic reflections of the self that humbly navigate subject and environment. His practice incorporates a process of embodied knowing, exploring connection to and reclamation of the self, both in the physical reality and from/through the virtual. Each piece, though unique in tone, is honest, undeniably true to his demeanor. As a performer, Fay’s physical language is chameleonic, shifting between investigative narratives of humor, love, longing, pain and absence with confident ease." — Yell Freeman, New York
