Artist’s Bio

Karl Mooney is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in North County Dublin.

His practice is concerned with memory, both personal and collective. Mooney creates ‘memory maps’ charting events, people, and places that have resonated with him in his life. He is currently charting the memories and happenings of his first home in Castleknock. Weaving Institutional Critique with familial life, or looking at how contemporary events might be framed in some far-off time, is typical of Mooney’s unique approach to image making.

Born in the sixties, Mooney cites growing up in those ‘Radio Days’ before the domination of the moving image — as fundamental to his understanding of art making. Straddling the old and new worlds, the analog and digital ages, lends a duality to his work.

Mooney’s work involves the correlation between Memory and Myths. Exploring how archetypes evolve and how they can be re-engineered to create new dialogues. Karl mixes symbols and signs from different eras and cultures, creating a new entity which provokes the viewer into re-examining their own conceptions.