Curated by Margarita Cappock

Missy Brinkmeyer’s practice is grounded in how we navigate each other in public—inhabiting space together while remaining separate. The resulting photographs feel like encounters with empathy itself: driven by instinct and emotional intelligence, a form of quiet contact. As the artist herself says “separation is just an illusion, we are all connected”.

We are seen.

For Seen, curator Margarita Cappock focuses mainly on images from central Dublin, including the area around the gallery. It is not intended as a conclusive statement on Brinkmeyer’s practice, but as one way to slice through her prolific image-making and reveal something about how she works.

– Neva Elliott

Missy Brinkmeyer has shown internationally in the US, EU, and UAE, as well as, and prominently in, Ireland. As an emerging artist she received the Curtain O’Donohue Emerging Artist award at the RHA Annual Exhibition in ‘24, following her solo exhibition Dublin in Black and White at the Central Bank of Ireland, supported by Dublin City Council, NEIC, and 5 Lamps Arts, in ‘23. And this year she is currently shortlisted for the AIB Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland, opening this November.

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Dr. Margarita Cappock is an art historian and curator with Dublin City Arts Office. She has developed and delivered major exhibition collaborations with international museums in Europe and Australia. She is a published author and a regular contributor of scholarly articles and essays to international and national exhibition publications and art journals. She has delivered guest lectures, conference papers and contributed as a discussion panellist for a diverse range of audiences in Ireland, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy, the United States, Australia and Japan.