Danny Treacy
Profession
Course Leader, BA Fashion Styling and Production
Person Type
Staff
Biography
Danny's practice utilises the power of clothing to tell stories. His work explores land use, shared experience and social invisibility. He is interested in places where communities exist in a fragile state because of social exclusion. Often these places are overlooked and not perceived to have a positive function, yet through repeated interactions and social rituals, they become a place of belonging for those who are marginalised.
Danny works in a manner that is explorative & responsive, reflecting the various environments he locates, resulting in processes including photography, sculptural assemblages and emerging technologies, that collectively consider the contemporary object as artefact, and centring a recognition of those who exist on the peripheries of society.Danny has exhibited extensively in the UK & the U.S, Mexico, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Ireland & Canada. With a solo show at The Photographer’s Gallery, London. His work is held in The British Council Collection & Portland Art Museum.
Danny has been artist in residence at The Irish Museum of Modern Art and AirSpace Gallery. One of his major bodies of work Them has been published in key surveys of contemporary photography such as ‘Vitamin PH’ (Phaidon) & Autoexposure: The Self Portrait in Contemporary Photography (Thames & Hudson). Danny has worked on public education projects with The South London Gallery, Tate, Marco Museum of Contemporary Art (MX) The University of Coahuila (MX) and The Courtauld Institute. His practice has been the subject of several academic texts.