Austin McQuinn took part in the Tipperary Dance Splash Lab 2025.
Austin is a Visual Artist, Lecturer and Writer deeply engaged in Visual Cultures, Performance Studies, Human-Animal Cultural Studies, the History of Art and Contemporary Art Theory and Studio Practice.
Committed to ongoing original research at the intersections of visual culture, bio-politics and cultural anthropology. Publishing and research informed by post humanism and queer theory, performance philosophy, stage and screen cultures, and creative arts and performance practices.
Studio practice producing Irish and international Solo and Selected group exhibitions, commissioned installations, major public sculpture commissions, projects in Arts in the Community, Arts in Healthcare, supported by local authorities, The Arts Council, Culture Ireland and Private Collections. Solo and selected group exhibitions, commissioned exhibitions and installations in London, Ireland, San Francisco, Dubai, Tasmania, France, Germany, and Italy.
Austin McQuinn’s recent solo exhibition , Mountains, Fall On Us, at Limerick City Gallery of Art 2024 amalgamated new paintings with live art performance and sculpture in a series of ambitious installations across the four main galleries at LCGA and followed with a full-colour Publication. His practice is defined by these deeply researched bodies of work creating solo exhibitions; in Project, Dublin; in Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle: DCP, San Francisco: and more recently locally at The Source and at STAC in Tipperary, where he lives and works. His doctoral expertise in live art practice and critique is expressed in his book, Becoming Audible, on sound, animality and performance, reissued in paperback this year by Penn State University Press.
