Stephen Brandes always subverts earnestness with the sardonic, mordant and mischievous wit that permeates all of his work, writes Francis Halsall
Stephen Brandes calls himself ‘an awkward, rootless cosmopolitan’ – and this nicely describes his art too. His work employs counterfactual narratives, histories and geographies to create stories and places that, whilst seeming initially familiar, fox any attempt to take them too literally. The forthcoming exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris might just feature his most ambitious work yet.
The collection of 19th century stereo negatives of the Gap Girls of Dunloe in Kerry comprise a rare and unique body of work, writes Julian Campbell
