Exhibition Announcement | Depots by Cillian Finnerty & Tim Furey

The Complex
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Location: The Gallery at The Complex, 21-25 Arran St E, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 YY97

Preview: 5 December, 6-8pm

Exhibition Run: 6-19 December

Hours: 10am-5pm Mon-Fri, 12-5pm Sat

The Complex presents 'Depots', an exhibition of newly commissioned work by Cillian Finnerty and Tim Furey, curated by Mark O'Gorman.

A list is a sequence of items, arranged one after another to organise and communicate information clearly.

A depot is a hub of storage and movement.

A hoarding used to secure vacant properties is typically constructed from perforated heavy-duty galvanised steel sheets and finished in Vandyke Brown paint.

A chattel is a legal term that means a piece of personal property, something that can be owned, moved, and traded.

A bucranium refers to the skull of a sacrificed ox, relating to the ancient Greek and Roman ceremonies of sacrifice.

A leaf will still decompose if wrapped in plastic, but the process will be significantly slowed down.

A birthstone is a gemstone that represents a person's birth month, believed to have metaphysical properties that promote spiritual well-being.

A stamp is a mark used to authenticate something.

A magnet is an object that produces a magnetic field.

A regular slotted container (RSC) is a standard cardboard box used for shipping goods, where all flaps are the same length for efficiency.

A vinyl wrap is used to protect steel products from damage and corrosion during shipping and handling.

A clock is a device for measuring and showing time. It is commonly used to differentiate between work and leisure times.

A variable quantity is a value that can change or vary.

A pause is a temporary stop. An exhibition is a pause.

Cillian Finnerty is based between Co. Mayo and London, working across sculpture, artist publishing, drawing, and installation. He graduated in 2016 from the Painting programme at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and was a cohort member of the School of the Damned (a peer-led alternative MFA) from 2022–2024. Recent presentations of his work include Several Small Motors (solo exhibition at Pallas Projects, Dublin), Collision Project 2025 (group exhibition at STARLING, Limerick), and Permanent Mirage with Cóilín O’Connell (Radion, Amsterdam).

Timothy Furey was born in 1981, Cork. He lives and works in Dublin. He studied at Cluain Mhuire, Galway, The Cooper Union, New York and the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. Furey has exhibited his work extensively in such galleries and institutions as Villa Medici (Rome), IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Mathew Gallery (Berlin), Dold Projects, (Schwarzwald DE), 1857 (Oslo), Latvian Institute Rome, kim? (Riga) MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, (Frankfurt) Solo exhibitions include Wrapt In The Wave, Ellis King (Dublin). A New Body of Work and This Days, Bianca D’alessandro (Copenhagen).