Seeing Against The Grain (Ishmael Claxton)

Thursday, 9 April 2026

Event times:

18:30 - 20:30

Event location:

This Must Be The Place

Event price:

€7.40

About this event

An artist talk with Ishmael Claxton. Meet and connect with creatives. Ishmael Claxton is a Dublin based visual artist and photographer working across photography, installation, and curatorial collaboration.

For this event he will be presenting his work and ideas for an evening of creativity and discussion.

His practice is shaped by a mix of mathematics, art history, costume design, and creative installation.

Photography is Ishmael’s main tool for thinking through identity, migration, power, and belonging. His work moves between documentary and staged moments, blending the real and the imagined to reflect the instability of contemporary life. Influenced by surrealism, pop art, futurism, and Afro futurist imaginaries, his images are bold, colourful, and charged with symbolic weight.

His work has been exhibited widely across Ireland and internationally, including PhotoMuseum Ireland, the RHA, the Hunt Museum, and the National Concert Hall.

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