Sorcha Frances Ryder is a visual artist & photographer based in Dublin, Ireland. Her practice is primarily analog photography processes, video & mixed media.
Sorcha Frances Ryder (b. 1998) is a Dublin-based visual artist and fine art photographer. Ryder grew up in Tallaght, where she currently resides with her family. In 2021 she graduated with First Class Honours (BA) in Fine Art Print & Contemporary Practice from Limerick School of Art & Design.
Her work deals with themes of home, loneliness and transitions from youth to adulthood, with elements of the uncanny and abject personhood. Through intimate portraiture and narrative scenes set in domestic or personal spaces, Ryder makes deeply personal and sincere expressions of her personhood, that are uncompromising in their attempt to show her trials, triumphs and failures. Her most recent work is a candid expression of her life after college, while also acting as a microcosm of the larger issue of a generation who feel unsure of their futures and let down by the systems that are in place. Ryder captures herself and loved ones in brief and sentimental moments of transition, through the time-sensitive, empathetic medium of analog photography, each image caught in a brief moment of light and time. Through these works, Ryder embraces and deconstructs the inevitable challenges and unavoidable experiences of change.
She fluidly translates her distinctive visual style and injects her personality into her work with clients, including The Mary Wallopers, Lankum and more.
Recently, she has exhibited across Ireland, including the Limerick City Gallery of Art, OUTSET Gallery (Galway), and the National Gallery of Ireland as a shortlisted artist for the Zurich Portrait Prize 2022, where she gained notoriety for her piece, ‘My Bedroom As A Depressed College Graduate’.
She is currently based in La Catedral Studios, Dublin 8.
WORK FEATURED IN (PUBLICATIONS) : Hot Press Magazine, DISTRICT magazine, The Guardian, The Irish Times, RTÉ Culture, NPR Music, Rough Trade Records, Nialler9, Irish Arts Review, National Gallery of Ireland ZPP 2022 Catalogue, LUNA magazine, and more.
CLIENTS : The Mary Wallopers, Lankum @ Rough Trade Records, Aisling Duffy (designer), Day Magee (artist), Aoife O’Toole (DJ Egg), Roo Honeychild (Club Comfort), etc.
EDUCATION
BA (First Class Hons)in Fine Art Print & Contemporary Practice, Limerick School of Art & Design - 2017-2021
FETAC Level 5 in Art, Design & Mixed Media, Ballyfermot College of Further Education - 2016-2017
Exhibitions
GROUP SHOWS
Zurich Portrait Prize 2022 (Shortlisted Artist) - The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (2022)
Outset Xmas Open - Outset Gallery, Galway (2022)
PULSE - Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (2022)
MAXIMALISM - Spacecraft Gallery + Studios, Limerick (2022)
K-FEST 2021 - Killorglin, County Kerry (2021)
Cinemagic Film Festival - Belfast (2021)
Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival - Offaly (2021)
RALLY - online degree show for LSAD graduates (Class of 2021)
Novas Ireland Fundraiser in Sailor's Home - Limerick City (2018)
King John's Castle, Group Show - Limerick City (2017)
