Biography

Comhghall Casey was born in 1976 in Letterkenny, Co.Donegal and grew up in Omagh in Co. Tyrone.
He moved to Belfast in 1994 to study Art and Design at the University of Ulster and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1998. After spending two years in Belfast, he moved to Dublin and has been living and working here ever since.

Comhghall generally works on a small scale and his preferred subject matter is still life, self-portraiture and occasionally landscape painting. In the still life works he chooses to study mundane, deliberately ordinary, everyday objects, such as houseplants, coins, cuts of meat, fruits or childs' toys. Each object is placed centrally against a neutral background, along the dividing line between the simple tabletop and background wall. Devoid of any narrative or meaning, Comhghall explains that in some way he is "trying to give an importance to these objects, to convey their tangibility, to freeze their presence".