LYÓNN WOLF
READING AND IN-CONVERSATION WITH LÉANN HERLIHY
Saturday 24 January 4–5.30pm, Readings begin 4.30pm
To mark the final weekend of Lyónn Wolf’s solo exhibition De-production, FTHo is delighted to host a special event to take place within the installation of the exhibition. Wolf will give a reading from Big Book of De-production, a unique artist’s book published in an edition of one. This reading will be followed by an in-conversation with Léann Herlihy, an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin, exploring the broader frame of the De-production project.
Wolf describes Big Book of De-production as charting ‘an extended time of relational self-making’ citing Trans Femme Futures by Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift as an important reference, detailing ‘the importance of practices that transform our everyday lives such as practising solidarity, support care, theorising and embodied transformation’.
Free, booking essential, to book please email [email protected]
Lyónn Wolf, Big Book of De-production (detail), 2025, artist book, 322 pages, b&w, A4. Lounger, cushions, chain; and Reading Womb, 2025, banner, velvet, custom printed textile, hand dyed textile. Photo: Rita Silva
De-production (28 November 2025–25 January 2026), the first UK solo exhibition of Lyónn Wolf, was commissioned by Askeaton Contemporary Arts and initiated during an artist residency at FTHo in summer 2024. This exhibition is supported by Culture Ireland.
Léann Herlihy (they/them) is an artist, researcher and educator based in Dublin.
Their practice is informed by trans*, queer ecological, feminist and abolitionist theoretical frameworks which deploys alternative modalities of expression through an array of mediums including live performance, video, billboards, sculpture, text, workshops and radical pedagogies. Rigorously and creatively critiquing the positioning of Otherness in a heteronormative society, Léann actively transgresses beyond 'Other' as another tick-box option to choose from and moves to explore the generative capacity of collective engagement and resistance when we abolish colonial and capitalist prescriptions of personhood, the body and gender. Refusing disciplinary coherence, their research dwells in the often incompatible and unarchived fragments physically found at the back of storage rooms or virtually spiraling down the threads of online forums as they scavenge for remnants of those who have been deliberately or accidentally excluded from society.
Léann Herlihy is a lecturer in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. They are the recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award [2022], Visual Arts Bursary [2021, 2023, 2024, 2025] & Project Award [2024]. Select solo exhibitions include the middle of nowhere, Project Arts Centre, Dublin [2022]; Beyond Survival School Bus, Dublin Fringe Festival [2022]. Select two person shows include pass the baton, Galway Arts Centre [2025]; False Start, GOMA, Waterford [2025]. Select group shows include EXPO CHICAGO, US [2026]; Innsbruck International Biennial, Austria [2026]; Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum of Modern Art [2025]; Dreamtime Ireland, VISUAL Carlow [2025]; Precarious Joys, Toronto Biennial of Art [2024]; The Salvage Agency, TULCA [2024]; The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA International [2023]; Reflex Blue, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios [2023]. They are a Member Studio Artist [2024-27] at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin.
Askeaton Contemporary Arts is an artist-led organisation based in the west of Ireland since 2006. An ongoing residency programme creates critical cultural encounters in the midst of the Irish countryside each summer, while public programmes and exhibitions in Askeaton and elsewhere over two decades have found innovative public contexts and resilient relationships for new forms of artmaking to emerge.
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