From A Cosmic Drift Through Higher Prairie
Richard Proffitt
15 July — 22 September 2023
Richard Proffitt will be joined by curator Pádraic E. Moore for an in-conversation event at The Dock on Saturday 12 August at 2pm. Please join us in the Music Room as they discuss Richard’s current exhibition From a Cosmic Drift Through Higher Prairie, an otherworldly, intimate, and immersive experience amidst the ghostly debris of psychedelia and alternative spiritualism.
“Richard Proffitt's work is representative of the major resurgence of interest amongst contemporary artists in visionary experiences, sympathetic magic and the occult. One might situate Proffitt’s work as part of the same tradition as Austin Osman Spare or Joseph Beuys in which a crossover between the roles of cultural producer and shaman is central to one’s position.” Read Pádraic’s 2016 essay, Psychedelic Suburban Esotericism, in response to Richard’s work.
Admission to From a Cosmic Drift Through Higher Prairie: Artist’s Talk is free and advance booking is required.
About Pádraic
Pádraic E. Moore is a writer, curator and art historian.
About Richard
Richard Proffitt (born 1985, Liverpool, UK) lives and works in Dublin. Recent exhibitions include Shadow the Solar Trail, VISUAL, Carlow, 2023; A Memory Circular, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, 2021; Little Did They Know, EVA International, Limerick City, 2021; The Museum of Ancient History, UCD, Dublin, 2020; and Display, Link and Cure, The Complex, Dublin, 2019.
Image: Installation view of From A Cosmic Drift Through Higher Prairie by Richard Proffitt. Photo by Ros Kavanagh.
