About

Born in Dungannon in 1977, Dominic McNamee is a multidisciplinary artist. He uses Photography, video and sound in his personal practice. Dominic uses photography to explore memory and place, he uses sound to both reinforce and often alter the visual narrative. His work explores the social and anthropological conditions of the self and how we relate to our environment through personal and shared experience utilising traditional photographic practices as well as a pseudo-forensic approach. He endeavours through his work to start a conversation and engage with an audience to evoke similar feelings and emotions to those that he experience when he looks at the work of others. He uses both digital and film media, family archive and ephemera, found sounds, field recordings and old reel to reel recordings, to make connections with his past and present.

Education:
2024 - MFA (Photography) Belfast School of Art, Ulster University
2020 - 2023 - Ba (Hons) Photography and Video Belfast School of Art, Ulster University with first class honours.
2019 - 2020 - HNC Photography Belfast Met.

Selected Exhibitions and Performances:
• ‘To see for Ones Self’, End of Year Graduate Show, Ulster University, June 2023
• Imprint, Belfast Exposed, 3 - 26 Feb 2022
• Solo Video installation and live performance. 2DI Studios, Coalisland, 26th Nov 2021
• Belfast Met, HNC Show, June 2020 (Online due to Covid 19 Lockdown restrictions)
• SWC Dungannon, HNC Show, Ranfurly House, Dungannon, June 2019

Awards and Nominations:
Photo Ireland, Research and Development Artist Residency (RADAR) 2023 - Nominee
Photo Museum Ireland, Early Career Artist Award 2023 - Shortlisted