In photography the accepted notion that the camera does not lie  has become an accepted, if erroneous cliché. What separates presentation from representation, real or record, from fantasy? I construct photographs that forefront this ambiguity in order to question received notions about identity.  The photograph asks us to decide what we are willing to assume, on the basis of outward appearance, about individuals we encounter in the everyday.
– Deirdre Power, Limerick

Deirdre Power has exhibited widely and is represented by the Phatory Gallery in New York. Exhibitions include EVA International, Kilkenny Arts Festival, RHA, Triskel Art Centre, Limerick City Gallery of Art and the National Self Portrait Collection. She has received numerous awards and residencies including the Mac Dowell Colony Residency in New Hampshire, USA.