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PIGSY

Mixed Media Painting · Dublin

I explore the human psyche through bold, instinctive painting. Gestural marks, layered imagery and fragmented language become a means of examining the forces that shape human behaviour, memory and identity.

Works

12 artworks

  1. Abstract figurative painting with sweeping black and blue marks, a pink-and-yellow figure, and vivid orange and red brushstrokes against a pale background.As I Say It2025 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 54 × 81 × 5 cm€4,500
  2. Square mixed-media painting of a skeletal, winged figure with large yellow eyes and raised hands, surrounded by pink, purple, black and white expressive marks, with the words “Non-Serviam” above its head.Non-Serviam2018 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 150 × 150 × 5 cm€14,000
  3. Square mixed-media painting in pink, cream, red, green and black, with a large outlined head in profile, the words “INSATIABLE”, “NOT ME” and “GREED”, crossed-bone symbols and a red panel containing a question mark.Insatiable Greed2018 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 160 × 160 × 5 cm€11,000
  4. Mixed-media painting depicting a distorted pink-faced figure with mismatched eyes and an extended pink tongue, surrounded by expressive blue, yellow, orange and white brushstrokes, handwritten text and large black lettering spelling “WAY”.Walk Your Way2021 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 115 × 146 × 3 cm€7,500
  5. Mixed-media painting with a dark silhouetted profile on the right, a red outlined heart and candle on the left, and the words “SACRED WORDS” across a background of turquoise, pink and white brushstrokes, with red paint splashes and a sweeping yellow line.Sacred Words2025 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 54 × 81 × 5 cm€4,500
  6. Portrait-format mixed-media painting depicting a dark figure with raised arms beneath the handwritten word “HOPE”, surrounded by vivid fluorescent pink, black and gray expressive brushstrokes against a pale background.Hope2025 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 130 × 81 × 5 cm€7,000
  7. Landscape-format mixed-media painting featuring a large skull-like face with circular eyes and exposed teeth, flanked by two smaller faces, against a heavily layered background of blue, yellow, orange, black and white marks.There is Always Another Matthias2022 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 120 × 150 × 5 cm€7,500
  8. Landscape-format mixed-media painting featuring a large red, suspended form held between two dark silhouetted figures with raised arms. Bold black outlines and dripping paint contrast with a textured white and pale blue background, above a broad red band along the bottom.Suspended2025 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 81 × 130 × 5 cm€7,000
  9. Landscape-format mixed-media painting featuring two dark, standing silhouettes on either side of a pale, suspended head-like form, against layered pink, blue and white brushstrokes, with a bold orange line running across the bottom.An Offering2025 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 81 × 130 × 5 cm€7,000
  10. Large portrait abstract painting with five red circular forms near the top, bold pink and red gestural marks across the centre, and a dense black area to the left. Layers of yellow, blue, turquoise and pale pink paint create a vibrant composition with extensive drips and overlapping brushstrokes.One Two Three (iii)2021 · Mixed Media on Canvas · 202 × 125 × 3 cm€9,000
  11. Portrait-format mixed-media painting on paper featuring a distorted human face with red eyes and lips, loosely drawn in black against a vivid pink and green background. A large black and gray angular form dominates the right side, surrounded by fragmented handwritten text and expressive marks.Disconnected Head2025 · Mixed Media on Paper · 42 × 29.7 × 0.1 cm€900
  12. Landscape mixed-media painting on paper depicting a dark figure with raised arms, a bright yellow outlined face and expressive blue, red and black brushstrokes. Repeated handwritten marks and fragments of text fill the pale pink background, with the word “VOID” painted in red at the lower right.Void2024 · Mixed Media on Paper · 32.5 × 50 × 0.1 cm€1,250

About PIGSY

PIGSY is the artistic identity of Dublin-born Irish artist Ciarán McCoy. His practice centres on painting, exploring the psychological terrain of language, memory, identity and belonging through bold, instinctive mark-making. Working across canvas, mixed media and paper, he confronts the tension between structure and chaos, discipline and emotional expression.

A qualified architect turned artist, PIGSY brings an understanding of structure, construction and deconstruction to a practice driven by spontaneity and intuition. Drawing on personal experience, including dyslexia, his work embraces fragmentation, layered imagery and handwritten language as ways of exploring the subconscious and the psychological forces that shape human behaviour.

His recent solo exhibitions include "Wayward Tribe" (AcentricSpace, Shanghai, 2026), "Language as Wound, Silence as War" (Fade Street Studios, Dublin, 2025), "Níl Brón Orm" (360XQMX, Ajijic, Mexico, 2025), "Tá Brón Orm" (Casa Lü Sur, Mexico City, 2024) and "First Things Last" (La Casa Amarilla, Málaga, Spain, 2024).

PIGSY has exhibited internationally across Ireland, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and China, and undertaken artist residencies in Ireland, Spain, Mexico and China. His work has featured in the Hunt Museum Open Submission exhibition in Ireland and is held in private collections internationally and in the collection of Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin.

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