blunt, pain at the receptor comprises of four works by Brian Teeling. These works address memory, technology, automotive psychology, and the paternal bond.

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In the absence, of leaves, cherry blossom petals.

Close to invisible, my skin blooms in dusk.

Solvent dreams shade in leatherette, flash

of vinyl plastic. Wired for your rebound.

Tails of crimson, ticking amber flicker. Fixed

on the corner, I see you in to pairs

of blinding beams,

and my eyes have you too.

Isolated in grids of black tar, concrete panel,

my sad small voice murmurs behind

dismal tears. Waiting for a sharp, shot

blunt, pain at the receptor.

Featured Works:

• service
  • Text, drill cotton, car paint frame
  • 1m x .75m
  • 2024

• mid to late 90s cardiology
  • Photograph, cordura, sandpaper
  • 1m x .75m
  • 2024

• I wish it was growing outside my walls
  • Instant photo, cotton poplin, silver frame
  • 1m x 1m
  • 2024

• wing mirror
  • Found photograph, drill cotton, tray frame
  • 1m x 1m
  • 2024

Brian Teeling is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice collides distillations of photography with aspects of the innately personal to create sombre poetic works that reflect on romance, melancholy, and masculinity. His work explores themes on queer working-class dynamics, psychogeography, cosmology, automotive psychology, and portraiture. Recent work includes Portrait Lab, a group exhibition at The Model, Sligo; c-space, installation at The Dean Art Studios; and forthcoming work including publication Busáras, and a commissioned body of work, Building As Witness, for The Crawford Gallery, Cork (2023).

Recipient of Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary (2020, 2021), shortlisted for Zurich Portrait Prize (2022) and a studio residency with IMMA at The Dean Art Studios.