Darran McGlynn is an artist from Inishowen, Co. Donegal who lives in Galway where he is based at ArtSpace Studios. His multi-disciplinary practice incorporates sculpture, text, installation and printed media, often combining these elements together. Recent activity includes Leaves Ground, a solo exhibition at Roscommon Arts Centre in 2023. Recent publications include Mopus Operandi (2022), an 8-page text work printed in TOLD screen printed text art journal published by Small Night Projects, launched at the RHA, Dublin, 2022 and featured at the Dublin Art Book Fair.

Darran is interested in investigating the contemporary condition - contemporary Being - in the globalised landscape through the lenses of history, culture, psychology, philosophy and politics. He combines this with an interest in concepts of time, creating works that juxtapose the traditional and contemporary. Informed by conceptual art, minimalism, land art, classical, modernist and ready-made sculpture, his work brings together materials such as marble, steel, neon, animal skin and various printed media. There's an underlying characteristic humour in the work - a dark playfulness - informed by his own personal experiences merged with a deeper social and philosophical reflection that is somehow gentle and simultaneously quite savage. Darran likes to develop his exhibitions in a site-specific, installation based format but also produces unique standalone sculptures.