‘Bug Choir’
Digital collage, digital print, billboard
2023
2023
On your way in, make sure to check out Kian's newly installed billboard, 'Bug choir'. 'Bug choir' is a fractured self-portrait of Kian, playing terracotta whistles on top of Union Rock - a walking trail near the artist's home overlooking Sligo and Sligo Bay. The artist plays a song for all of Sligo to hear, inspired by the statue in Rosses Point called 'Waiting on the Shore', which was made as a tribute to the men at sea and shipwrecked. Kian's romantic song is a queer fairy song of similar epic drama.
Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin is a new commission from Kian Benson Bailes comprising sculpture, digital & material collage, musical instruments, ceramics, textiles, woodwork, and live sculptural sound elements. Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin references Irish folklore, mythology, and craft traditions in an exuberant expression of rural queer experience.
Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin is a new commission from Kian Benson Bailes comprising sculpture, digital & material collage, musical instruments, ceramics, textiles, woodwork, and live sculptural sound elements. Culchie boy, I love you / Grá mo chroí thú, mo chábóigín féin references Irish folklore, mythology, and craft traditions in an exuberant expression of rural queer experience.
