Biography:
Born in 1964, Mark lives and works in Berlin and Dublin. He is an Associate Lecturer in Photography at the IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland and presently a PhD candidate through the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice (CTMP), DIT. He lived in Canada for eight years, where he received a BA(Hons) Sociology and worked as a social worker. Curran's previous project, SOUTHERN CROSS (Gallery of Photography 2002), was published and exhibited internationally. The Breathing Factory (Edition Braus/Belfast Exposed Photography 2006), an outcome of his present postgraduate research, has been widely presented as an installation and was a finalist for the CEDEFOP PhotoMuseum Award 2007 at the Museum of Photography, Thessalonika, Greece; in 2008, it was installed as part of Septembre de la Photographie in Lyon, France and also at the China International Photography Festival in Pingyao, China. Curran was awarded the Gallery of Photography Development Bursary in 2001, and is the recipient of the inaugural New Work Visual Arts Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland towards his present research project, one sited in a declining industrialised region of the former East Germany.
The piece in the current exhibition is from The Breathing Factory a major project which critically addresses the representation of labour and global labour practices in the context of the Republic of Ireland’s newly industrialised landscape. It was exhibited in the Gallery of Photography in 2006.
