John Gerrard is an Irish Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1974. His work is currently being shown at Lismore Castle Arts in Waterford. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Pace New York (510 West 25th Street) have featured John Gerrard's work in the past.John Gerrard's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 40 USD to 118,750 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 118,750 USD for Oil Stick Work (Angelo Martinez, Richfield, Kansas), sold at Phillips New York in 2015. John Gerrard has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Frieze Magazine in August 2025.
Curator Sorcha Carey鈥檚 vision unites monolithic and reflective commissions 鈥 from a three-headed stone bird to bespoke ice cream 鈥 enlivening this British coastal setting.
You can spend an enjoyable day roaming around the Folkestone Triennial (to 19th Oct), with 25 new works from 18 artists plus 80-odd retained as permanent from the previous five iterations.
Sorcha Carey鈥檚 first outing as curator of the Folkestone Triennial turns its sixth iteration into a subtle but no less powerful meditation on this distinctive coastal terrain, and the impacts of climate and human activity here and further afield.
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.. Evoking many historical precedents in painting, photography and video, Gerrard鈥檚 virtual worlds do not belong to familiar lens or time-based media...
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..Working from extensive photographs and topographical satellite data, the artist and studio have hand-built a meticulous virtual world, a portrait, over which the artist has an unprecedented control...
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..Gerrard has painstakingly amalgamated this into a rendering of a more recent scientific experiment, captured on video and posted to YouTube during a mission of the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992...
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