Fergus Byrne is a multidisciplinary artist. He studied fine art in NCAD in the 90s. In 2003 he completed an MA in Contemporary Performance Practice at Hull University. He has has taught life drawing for many years which has informed his performance practice. Since 2017 he has been a tour guide in the National Gallery of Ireland.

He has previously curated events that convened varied art forms and audiences such as the Transversal series (2010-2012) with Deirdre Murphy and Generation at The Dock (2013). In 2015 he collaborated with Ambra Bergamasco on the Moving Bodies Butoh Film Festival at the New Theatre, Dublin.

He has been very involved with Contact Improvisation dance in Dublin. In addition to this his other training has been martial arts and Body Weather Training. His writing practice brings with it a particular viewpoint on performance work, exemplified in ‘Fragments on the Performance Collective’ in Performance Art in Ireland: A History edited by Áine Phillips.

He is a member of the Visual Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland and his practice has been funded by The Arts Council of Ireland.

Contact: info@fergusbyrne.ie