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Brian Giles is an Irish printmaker whose work examines how environments shape identity and how transformation is embedded in the fabric of lived experience. Using techniques such as screen printing, risography, photography, and collage, he creates layered compositions that depict moments of change, growth, and renewal.

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His practice embraces both precision and unpredictability. Halftone circles, bitmap diffusions, and overlapping transparencies form a visual language of change, while unexpected occurrences, moiré patterns, ink bleeds, and paper creases serve as reminders that transformation is never entirely controllable. By working with both traditional paper and found materials, Giles uses the surface of his creations as a site for experimentation, allowing each print to carry the emotional and physical traces of place, process, and time.

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Rooted in residencies and collaborations across Europe, his work has gradually evolved from figurative beginnings toward abstraction. This shift reflects a growing interest in capturing not what is fixed, but what is in the process of becoming, the fluidity of identity, memory, and experience as they navigate different environments.