Stephen Doyle 2020
Dylan is Ainm Dom

Stephen Doyle 2020
Dylan is Ainm Dom

Queer artist

LGBTQ arts

Art

Crawford Art Gallery Cork

Cork based queer artist Stephen Doyle with his portrait Dylan is Ainm Dom (Dylan is My Name) as it was added to the Cork Crawford Art Gallery Collection in 2020.
Dylan is Ainm Dom (2018), explores contemporary concerns with self-identity in modern Ireland.
The setting is a park near seventeen-year-old Dylan’s home in Lucan, County Dublin. The familiar landscape gives the sitter an immediate connection to his heritage, while the medium of oil paint extends this sense of tradition. The artist’s use of bold neon, however, implies an ‘otherness’. This is thought to be the first artwork in the national collection that openly addresses transgender identity.

Stephen Doyle Collection

2020-02

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Cork

2020