In much of his previous work Gary Coyle has examined the photographic image. By deleting the narrative, Coyle’s resulting images became a starting point for a more personal story. In this exhibition, Coyle reverses this process, presenting a slide show of photographs of his hometown and recounting tales to accompany them.
In Death in Dun Laoghaire, Coyle combines many of the themes & subjects he has explored in previous exhibitions such as crime scene photographs, the urban landscape and an interest in the every day and local. Coyle’s latest workhas its origins in his 2000 show Ad Marginem, where he turned a local activity, swimming in the Forty Foot in Sandycove, into a work of art. Through viewing his local environment in a different light, he realised that a viewer could not know why various images were made unless they were aware of the story behind the image.
