Michael Croghan - Artist Statement

Michael Croghan is a documentary photographer who photographs in-between spaces, in a poetic realist and formalist style adaptive to the everyday vernacular. He collaborates with communities of interest to explore social tropes and hidden histories, a transcendence of the familiar to draw attention to the poetry of the common place
Michael is an obsessive daily image maker, working on multiple works at any given time, and revisiting the same places because of the temporal nature of things.

Awards/Exhibitions/Grants

2024 June 5th - 30th Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Scotland, International Photography Exhibition 2024, work selected from ongoing bog series for group show

2024 13th April work selected for Metachrosis Literary Magazine, dedicated to the arts, sciences and humanities, work titled Metamorphosis Publishing in June 2024

2024 Mar - Work selected for Source Magazine New Work Open Call 2024, for new work in progress A Place I remember I forget 2024

2024 Mar - Awarded Bursary Grant, County Longford Arts Services, for new work 2024 A Place I remember I forget

2024 Jan 20th - 10th Feb, Praxis Photo Arts Center, MN Minnesota, USA, group exhibition Landscapes, work selected from ongoing localisms project

2023 Dec 7th - 17th Dublin Art Book Fair DABF23 Polyphonic, self published book Ceremony selected

2023 Dec 1st - 22nd Co. Cork County Council Library LHQ Gallery, work from ongoing bog series selected for group show

2023 Nov 17th - 6th Jan 2024 Co. Laois Dunamaise Gallery group show, works selected from ongoing bog series

2023 Aug 21st Source online magazine Masters Graduate Photography Online 2023 (https://www.source.ie/graduate/2023/iadtdunlmr/iadtdunlmr_index.php)

2023 July 21st - 23rd Ceremony Installation Cruthu Arts Festival

2023 May 4th - Nov 4th Work selected for Group Exhibition Survey of the Landscape Waterford Gallery of Art

2023 Feb 24th - 22nd April 2023, Unknowing the likeness of Being work selected to Rua Red's Spring Open 2023

2023 Feb 9th - 12th In Plain Sight work selected for Rotterdam Photofestival 2023

2023 Jan 11th - 21st Local Area MA Project in a Group Exhibition titled Perambulation, Lab Gallery Dublin

2023 Selected image for ShutterHub 2023 Publication Everyday Delight

2022 Oct 6th - 20th Exhibition 'Portrait in Time', Longford Town, Old Providers Building

2022 Sept Awarded the new government artist pilot scheme

2022 July Grant awarded for exhibition, Longford live & Local

2022 July Image selected online exhibition, shutterhub yearbook 2022 https://shutterhub.org.uk/exhibition-yearbook-2022/

2022 Mar 7th Prefactory exhibition in the Lab Gallery Dublin with iadt ma arc art research program

2021 Nov Grant approved for exhibition Longford Live & Local Dec 2021

2021 Oct 15th work selected for (Dublin) TLP'S Halftone 2021

2021 Sept 17th Sept Culture Night curator of exhibition installation Archive Cognizance https://culturenight.ie/event/artist-michael-croghan-archive-cognizance/

2021 Sept 14th shortlisted with Gallery of Photography's open call for Galleries Without Walls

2021 Irish Arts Review ''new generation gallery'' https://www.irishartsreview.com/new-generation-artist-work/michael-croghan/

2021 Lensculture Critics choice June 21 https://www.lensculture.com/event_submissions/1288141

2021 Lensculture portrait critics choice May 22, https://www.lensculture.com/photo-competitions/portrait-awards-2021

2020 Associate of republicofculture.ie/ Nov 2020 - 2022

2020 Visual Arts Ireland Member

2021 Mass Isolation Photobook, Gallery of Photography Ireland, curated by Darja Zaitsev, Photo North, Finland.

2020 Visual Arts Ireland Member (VAI) 12220

2020 International Center of Photography, New York, Global Crisis: https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/icpconcerned-global-images-for-global-crisis

2020 'lumin-x' short film in collaboration with musician Shane Kennedy, Culture Night, Longford Town https://www.facebook.com/events/1616035468575388/

2020 Poster exhibition in collaboration with Irish poster advertising (htttps://www.ipa-ltd.ie) and school of media-tu-dublin

2016 exhibition Cruthu festival Longford

Published

2023 Oct self published book zine Ceremony

2023 Everyday Delight, Shutterhub publication 2023, https://shutterhub.org.uk/announcement-everyday-delight-a-shutter-hub-editions-publication-selected-photographers

2022 Mar Gallery of Photography, Mass Isolation Publication, image selected (https://www.galleryofphotography.ie/mass-isolation-publication)

2021 Nov 1st - 28th TLP Dublin, The Library Project work selected for Halftone Print Fair (Group) https://halftone.ie/ (Date extended to 17th Dec)

2020 Collaboration with Poetry Ireland, title ''incredible things do happen''https://www.amazon.co.uk/Incredible-Things-Do-Happen-Introductions-ebook/dp/B087JYX5TL

2019 Magazine self published safe space https://www.blurb.com/b/9555723-s-fe-sp-ce

2018 book collaboration with poetry Ireland https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-Alive-Poetry-Ireland-Introductions-ebook/dp/B07PP7RBZ1

2017 book collaboration with poet (Audrey Healy) people and faces, stories and places

Education

2021-2023 Jan 2023 First Class Honours MA in Art & Research Collaboration, IADT Arc program Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland

2020 PhotoIreland collection Dublin - work experience - Archiving Library https://tlp.photoireland.org/pages/the-collection

2017-2021 BA (Hons) Photography TuDublin (formely DIT), https://www.tudublin.ie/

2014 Fetac Level 6 Photography Open College Dublin Distinction

2013 Post Fetac 5 Advanced Photography Techniques (Non Cert-Lecturer Brian Flannagan)

2012 Fetac Level 5 Introduction to Digital Photography, Templemichael College Longford Town, County Longford (lecturer Luke Danniels) Distinction