Nicky Larkin was born in Birr, Ireland in 1983.  He studied Fine Art in Galway-Mayo I.T. and Chelsea College of Art, London.  His work is located somewhere in the crossover between video-art, documentary and experimental film.  He has exhibited widely across Ireland and the UK with video installations and sound-pieces, and his work has been screened at various international film festivals.  In 2007 he traveled to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, to shoot the experimental short Pripyat.  In 2008 his work was screened at The Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, The European Media Art Festival, Germany, and The Optica Madrid International Video-Art Festival, The Strasbourg International Film Festival, The Darklight Festival and The Bergamo Film Festival.  He also held three solo exhibitions in 2008, in both The Netherlands and Ireland.

In 2009 he was commissioned by The Irish Arts Council and The Belltable Arts Centre to create a piece exploring the notorious Moyross and Southill estates in Limerick city, Ireland; a city which has been dubbed "The Murder Capital of Europe."  The resulting piece, ‘Beyond The Roundabout?’, merges documentary with experimental film and video-art as it takes the viewer deep inside Ireland’s most neglected estates, areas widely regarded as the worst in the country in terms of poverty, crime and deprivation.  'Beyond The Roundabout?' premieres in Limerick in April 2010, and will subsequently be screened at The European Media Art Festival 2010 and The London East End Film Festival.  In 2009 he also traveled to Bosnia & Herzegovina, to create a body of photographic works for a solo exhibition held in The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, in July 2009.  In October he traveled to Moldova and the de-facto independent separatist state of Transnistria, to create work for a forthcoming show later in 2010. 

January and February 2010 were spent in Tbilisi, Georgia, on an artist residency program.  During this time he gained access to Tserovani Refugee Camp and created a body of photography documenting the lives and conditions inside this expansive camp built to accommodate the thousands of displaced Georgians, who’s homes were destroyed during the 2008 Russian-Georgian war

He is represented by The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.

Born in Birr, Ireland, in 1983
Represented by The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin.

Solo Exhibitions

2009
Pots & Kettles - The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin

2008
The Last Stop – Enschede, The Netherlands
TULCA’08 – Athenry Castle, Galway
City of the Future – The Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick

Group Shows & Film Festivals

2010
The European Media Art Festival 2010, Germany
The London East End Film Festival, UK

2009
ev+a 2009, Limerick
The Bergamo Film Festival, Italy
RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
The Molesworth Gallery Winter Exhibition, Dublin
Cluster Approving Association, Gallery Turn-Berlin, Germany

2008
Optica, The Madrid International Festival of Video Art, Spain
Group Show, Enschede, The Netherlands
The Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
The European Media Art Festival 2008, Germany
The Darklight Film Festival, Dublin
Group Show, Willesdon Green Gallery, London
Group Show, The Crow Gallery, Dublin
Another Roadside Attraction, Video Art Screening, London
Group Show (Mart), The Galway Arts Festival
Projecto Videolab Coimbra, Portugal
Future Shorts Ireland, Dublin
Tril-o-gies, The White Room Gallery, Galway

2007
Flux Video & Live Art Festival, Clonakilty
Another Roadside Attraction, Shoreditch, London
Catalyst Arts Annual Show, Belfast
(e)merge, Galway Arts Centre, Galway
Free Association, Chelsea Triangle Space, London
Pair ’07, The Backloft Gallery, Dublin
Interim Show, Chelsea Triangle Space, London

2006
Flux Video and Live Art Festival, Clonakilty
Project ’06, The Living Room, Galway
BA Degree Show,  Galway Art College
Cuirt Literary Festival, The Arts Millennium Building, N.U.I. Galway.
ev+a 2006, Limerick

2005
TULCA Season Of Visual Arts ‘05
ENSO Live Art Event, Nuns Island Theatre, Galway
Diploma Show, Galway Art College
Short film Daytime T.V. screened as part of the Galway Film Festival

Awards & Bursaries

Irish Arts Council Travel & Training Award 2007, (Chernobyl project)
Offaly Arts Office, Artist Bursary Award 2008
Irish Arts Council Bursary Award 2008
Irish Arts Council Travel & Training Award (Sarajevo project)
Irish Arts Council Commissions Award 2008

Residencies

Aug–Dec 2008  -  B93 Residency Enschede, The Netherlands

January & February 2010 - GlogauAIR residency, Tbilisi, Georgia