Richard Proffitt birdhouse, Oil on plywood 28 x 30cm, 2021
Born Liverpool, UK, 1985. Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Richard Proffitt’s work in painting, sculpture, video, and sound is characterised by its manipulation and repurposing of found material, recurring themes of memory, time and transience, coded motifs, and symbolism. Works in different media are frequently combined to create immersive and intimate installations that evoke previously inhabited and later abandoned places of worship and transformation; environments that are often suggestive of an intermingling universe of esoteric religions, the bedrooms of teenage loners, and the remote dwellings of psychedelic cults.