Karol Séamus
Ealaíontóir Amhairc Il-dhisciplíneach / Multidisciplinary Visual Artist
*1980 i Leitir Ceanainn, DL, Éire
Beathaisnéis / Biography
Is ealaíontóir é Karol Séamus atá lonnaithe i nDún na nGall agus tá cúlra aige i gcleachtas na hailtireachta i Londain. Ag obair le grianghrafadóireacht dhigiteach ilshraitheach, líníocht dhigiteach, agus íomhá ghluaiseachta, scrúdaíonn a chleachtas an ailtireacht phoiblí agus an tírdhreach mar shuímh ina dtagann cuimhne, beartas agus taithí bheo le chéile. Le spéis ar leith sa nua-aoiseachas agus sa bhrútalachas, filleann sé ar struchtúir shibhialta agus thuaithe mar thaifid d’uaillmhian agus d’athbhreithniú. Tá a shaothar curtha ar taispeáint ar fud na hÉireann, lena n-áirítear san Acadamh Ríoga na nEalaíon hIbeirneach, agus i Londain. Tá a shaothar i seilbh trí bhailiúchán ealaíne poiblí. Déanann Séamus machnamh ar an gcaoi a léiríonn an timpeallacht thógtha coinníollacha sóisialta, polaitiúla agus eacnamaíocha atá ag athrú in Éirinn chomhaimseartha.
Karol Séamus is a Donegal-based artist with a background in architectural practice in London. Working across layered digital photography, digital drawing, and moving image, his practice examines public architecture and landscape as sites where memory, policy, and lived experience intersect. With a particular interest in modernism and brutalism, he revisits civic and rural structures as records of aspiration and revision. His work has been exhibited throughout Ireland, including at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, and in London. His work is held in three public art collections. Séamus considers how the built environment reflects shifting social, political, and economic conditions in contemporary Ireland.
Taispeántais Ghrúpa / Group Exhibitions
2026 -- "The Space Between" -- Ollscoil Notre Dame, An Choill Mhór, IE
2025 -- "Resolve 25" -- Acadamh Ríoga na nEalaíon hIbeirneach (RHA), BÁC, IE
2024 -- "Emergence" -- Ollscoil Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath, BÁC, IE
2024 -- "Home From Home -- Letterkenny Reunion Exhibition" --
Ionad Cultúrtha Réigiúnach (RCC), Leitir Ceanainn, IE
2022 -- "Dath an Dóchais" -- taispeántas camchuairte / touring exhibition, IE
2021 -- "The John Richardson French Residency" -- Teach Dhún Barra, Inis Ceithleann, NI
Taispeántas Beirte / Duo Exhibition
2019 -- "Dhá Dhual na Tírdhreacha" -- le Peadar McDaid, taispeántas camchuairte / touring exhibition, IE & NI
Taispeántais Aonair / Solo Exhibitions
2018 -- "Faoi Bhaile" -- Amharclann Ghaoth Dobhair, Na Doirí Beaga, IE
2017 -- "Bealach Chun An Iarthair" -- Fhéile Ealaíon an Earagail,
An tSean Bheairic, An Fhál Carrach, IE
