‘Swedger Island’ Exhibition Poster, 2025
Solo exhibition containing the unravelling narrative of an imagined Scottish music festival and a questionable narrator’s account of it.
A looping film inside a gazebo, alongside paintings, monumental drawings, and ephemeral festival sculptures showcased a Scottish hauntology as a multidisciplinary, self-examining, pseudo-mythology. By scavenging online media; YouTube rips, phone footage, and game textures, Farrell collaged reconstructions of lived and imagined experience through fictional self-portraits. His practice sits between confession and invention, using autofiction as a medium to question the reliability of personal and collective experience in our digitised age.
the swedger island (and his unravelling psychosis), charcoal on paper, 950×150cm, 2025
runaway flee, pentaptych: panels 1-5, each 107x142cm, oil and acrylic on canvas 2025
the ghost of rory byrne, (detail shot) cement, spraypaint in plynth, 2025
swedger island exhibition detail shot, various works
life’s a rollercoaster of uppers, downers, dunts and dependents, oil and acrylic on canvas, 150x120cm, 2025,
Caledonian Inadequezyzy, oil and acrylic on canvas, 160x126cm 2025
private memoirs and confessions of a fleeing floozy, 40 minute looping film, KRK speakers, MDF, 2004 Plasma TV, Gazebo, 2025, NFS
tents: present, perfect, future, past, progressive, perfect progressive, series: panels 1-6, (titled left to right), oil and acrylic on canvas, 60×60cm each, 2025
