Academic Staff
Dr. Ronan McCrea
Lecturer
Email: Ronan.Mccrea@TUDublin.ie
Tel: +35312205906
Ronan McCrea a lecturer in Fine Art (TU974) at the School of Art & Design working with photography, moving image and installation. He has previously Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle (2013-15), taught photography at Limerick School of Art & Design and worked as a visiting lecturer throughout Ireland and Europe.
In 2011 he completed his doctoral research Celluloid Materiality: Experimental Film, Photography & Contemporary Art that drew on experimental film, film theory, the photographic, and projection conducted under the supervision of Willie Doherty at University of Ulster, Belfast.
As an artist McCrea has exhibited nationally and internationally for over thirty years. In 2005 was one of the artists that represented Ireland at 51st Venice Biennale. In 2019 he was short listed for MAC International, Belfast. He is currently working on a long term project related to fatigue, exhaustion and municipal ‘waste-to-energy’ facilities.
Selected recent exhibitions and projects include Latent (2023) Green on Red Gallery, Sinopale 8 Turkey (2022); Efference Copy Mechanism, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2019); Mac International, Belfast (2018); MATERIAL(s) Green on Red, Gallery, Dublin (2016-17) We Are Center, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York (2016); Medium (Corporate Entities) 2008/15 in Fragments, Irish Museum of Modern Art (2015); Venn/Chroma Enclave Gallery, London (2014);
His work is represented in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Arts Council of Ireland, CCS Bard, UCD, OPW, as well as private collections.
Website: www.ronanmccrea.com
Research Interests: Current interests include philosophies of fatigue & exhaustion; municipal waste and landscape; celluloid materiality in contemporary art discourse; the projected image; the history of film theory; the nineties; artistic research methodologies.
PhD Supervision:
Irina Gheorghe (2016 – 2020)
Betraying the Senses: Techniques of Estrangement, or How Art A Speaks of What is Not There.
Chloe Brenan (2024 – ongoing)
Towards a Diffractive Documentary: Elucidating Slow Violence in the Postcolonial Orchard.