Venus Patel

Some gorgeous photos of “Monsters” 🐙 Taken by: Carol Cummins @carolcumminsphoto “Monsters” runs until this Sunday, September 15. Grab your tickets now! Link in bio SHOWTIMES 9-15 September • 18:15 €14/€12 conc. VENUE The Lir Academy DURATION 75 mins The end of the world is nigh! But you could be saved. Join the church of Daisy, a radical Trans preacher, as she prepares your soul for a new world without the boundaries of conformity, where your difference will be celebrated. Through her immersive, queer reimagining of the end of the world Daisy will subvert your Catholic guilt and combat your need for obedience. Only the most devout will survive the coming apocalypse and be transformed into their true, monstrous selves. Director/Co-writer/Performer - Venus Patel Co-writer/performer - Shauna Harris @shaunaxrose Music Director/ Performer - Ciarán McGannon @ciaranmcgannon Producer - Alice Quinn Banville @m.o.o.n.c.u.p Associate Producer - David McGovern @davidm.govern Stage Manager/ Production Manager- Kate Feehily @kate_nee_fee Costumes- Amie Egan @costumedesign_amie.egan and Venus Patel Lighting Designer/Technician- Thomas Wall Sound Technician- Alan Fay Set Manager- Fiona Murray Graphic design and documentation: Róisín McGrath @rooooooisin_design Photography and Videography: Murky Anyango @murkyanyango @dublinfringefest @the__lir #dublinfringefestival

Installation view of my work in “Staying with the Trouble” in IMMA on until September 21st. “Tri-goddess” Sculpture “Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse” Film Photography (Images 1-3): Ros Kavanagh @roskavanagh It’s been so amazing to be a part of this exhibition with such wonderful artists :) Go check it out before it closes ! 🐈🐈 Thank you to the lovely curators Mary Cremin @marycremin , Rachael Gilbourne @rachaelgilbourne , Georgie Thompson @georgiesthompson , Sara Muthi @saramuthi , and Seán Kissane @seanykissane for having me 💖💖 Exhibition Text: “The exhibition Staying with the Trouble, inspired by author and philosopher Donna Haraway’s seminal work, features over 40 Irish and Ireland-based artists whose diverse practices explore urgent themes of our time. Pushing against social norms, the works in the exhibition challenge us and attempt to make sense of the present, questioning interspecies relationships, ideas of transformation, and renewal. The exhibition challenges human-centric narratives, advocating for a multi-species/multi-kin perspective through sculpture, film, painting, installation and performance. The exhibition follows Haraway’s propositions such as “Making Kin”, “Composting” and “Sowing Worlds”, inviting visitors to rethink their connections with humans, animals, and ecosystems. Other propositions include “Critters”, emphasising the agency of non-human life, while “Techno-Apocalypse” critiques dystopian views on technology, proposing a more nuanced, interconnected future. Rather than passive spectators, viewers of the exhibition become active participants, encouraged to confront the complexities of our time with creativity and care. Through Haraway’s “tentacular thinking”, the exhibition fosters new ways of seeing and imagining, offering an invitation to collectively sow the seeds for a just and interconnected world. “ @immaireland Installation view, Staying with the Trouble, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland, 2025. Photography by Ros Kavanagh. Image courtesy the artist and IMMA.

Over the moon to have won the RDS Taylor Art Award. I’m so glad that I’ve been allowed the opportunity to share this work that’s been so important to me. Thank you to everyone that helped me make it, especially @jerome_onyango and @ciaranmcgannon I can’t wait to keep making more art that I hope brings change, conversation, and love into the world. The exhibition will still be up at the RDS until Saturday so make sure to go check out all the amazing work ! // Beautiful dress by @oranjaurelio

Meet the Spectrum LAB Speakers Irish Filmmaker Venus Patel @msvenuspatel Director of Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse Saturday 13th June 2026. at 11.00 | IFI Library | a talk with Venus Patel (75 mins) Originally from Los Angeles, Venus Patel is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across film, visual arts, and theatre. Her work proposes the deconstruction of boundaries and the unveiling of hidden and erased histories. She relies on the absurd, the fantastical, and the abject to create speculative realities for Queer/POC liberation. Her debut short film, ‘Eggshells’ (2022) , which she directed, wrote, and acted in, premiered at Gaze Film Festival, won the RDS Taylor Art Award and the Image Now Multimedia Award. Her most recent short film, ‘Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse’ (2023), has screened in film festivals across the US, the UK, Ireland, Germany, and France, and won an Audience Award from Translations: Seattle Trans Film Festival 2024. Venus is currently in pre-production for her first feature film, ‘Roxy.io’ a sci-fi fairytale musical, which was awarded an Arts Council Project Award and a Dublin City Council Project Grant. Supported by @screenireland through the Skills Development Events Funding Scheme Thanks to our host @irishfilminstitute

So excited to be working on my new film, Roxy.io ! 🤖🪳🕊️ A sci-fi fairytale musical that follows a chatbot who falls in love with a prince online and embarks on a journey to become human with the help of her animal friends and a trickster goddess. These are some test shots we did last year! So excited to tap dance my way through Dublin city :) Test Shot Credits: Cinematographer: Murky Anyango @murkyanyango Editor: Kat Lalor @katlalor.va Cast Fleepo: Ciarán McGannon @ciaranmcgannon Roxy: myself

Last November in Paris with @centreculturelirlandais So grateful to have shown my film and spent time researching some new work soon to be revealed … Photos 1&2 by Damien Boisson-Berçu @dbbpictures

Artist Spotlight - 'Still, We Gather' Venus Patel is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working in visual arts, film, and performance, based in Ireland. Born in Los Angeles, she graduated from TU Dublin in 2022 with a BA Honours in Fine Arts. Her practice utilises a unique blend of humour, absurdity, and abjection to create multi-faceted work that speaks on subject matter such as hate crimes, religious guilt, and Queer POC bodily suppression. Solo exhibitions include: “Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse” (Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, 2024) and “Monsters of the Apocalypse” (Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2023). Selected group exhibitions include: “In the Press” (Hypha Studios, London, 2025), “Power of Us” (Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 2024), and “The Queeratorial” (Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, 2023). She is a recipient of the Arts Council Project Award (2026), Arts Council Bursary Award (2024, 2025), Romilly Walton Masters Award (2023), and the RDS Taylor Art Award (2022). Selected performances include: “Monsters” (Dublin Fringe Festival, 2024) and “The Biscuit Without a Home” (Re-rooting Tallaght Festival, Rua Red, 2024). Her film work has been screened in festivals across Europe and the US. ‘Still, We Gather’ runs until 8 February 2026 @msvenuspatel @artscouncilireland @galwaycitycouncil @artsofficegalwaycity @thisisgalway @galwayswestend

Iconic final event, a performance walk by @msvenuspatel / Xtopher on queer erasure, suppression of truth, and the existence of monsters. Part of How We Get Free: an expansive Black and Brown feminist performance art programme curated by @clodaghassataboyce Thanks to all of the artists and audiences who joined us over the past five weeks. More thanks to come when we wipe the raindrops off our phone screen! We’re going to keep building the Black feminist library onsite (open until 20 December), and you can access an online list via the link in our bio 🔝

We have two more stunning events coming up next weekend as part of How We Get Free: A Black Feminist Performance Art Programme, curated by Clodagh Assata Boyce @clodaghassataboyce 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ Saturday 6 December, 7pm-8pm  Osaro Azams: live performance and screening of Things Are Tough - Things Are Glorious Things Are Tough - Things Are Glorious is a Super 8 film that carries a sense of reconnection by depicting scenes of Osaro’s family, held in frame until they blur out. @osarohello programmed by Ruairí McCann @langsmonkey Image courtesy of @fullfridgeandleftovers More info and free tickets via Eventbrite, link in bio! 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ Sunday 7 December, 1pm-2pm  Venus Patel: performance walking tour Setting off from PS² at 1pm, the tour will last approximately one hour. Please dress for Belfast’s early December weather! The event draws inspiration from Patel’s ongoing research into monsters as sites of exploration and imagination. This performance deals with the erasure of queer people and people of colour throughout history. Venus Patel will act as a tour guide, taking the viewers through the streets of Belfast to uncover our past through a speculative historical lens. What has been lost due to systemic erasure and denial of existence? She will unlock the true secrets of our past: the existence of a civilisation of queer monsters that lived here before us. @msvenuspatel More info and free tickets via Eventbrite, link in bio! 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️

Demain jeudi, lors de notre soirée de vernissage #ParisPhoto, ne manquez pas la projection de "Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse", court métrage expérimental de l'artiste Venus Patel, lauréate de notre Romilly Walton Masters Performance Residency en 2023. Entrée libre, en continu de 18h30 à 21h ! #romillywaltonmasters #romillywaltonmastersresidency #rwmperformanceresidency #experimentalperformance @dublinfringefest #dublinfringefest @msvenuspatel #venuspatel #daisyprophetoftheapocalypse #centreculturelirlandais #ruedesirlandais #paris5

𝑴𝑬𝑬𝑻 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑪𝑹𝑬𝑬𝑷𝑺 👀 @msvenuspatel is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across performance, film, and visual arts. Her work uses an absurdist lens to examine social conformity and Queer/POC suppression, informed by her experiences as a trans woman of colour. Her first show, “Monsters”, debuted at Dublin Fringe Festival 2024, which she directed, co-wrote, and performed in. She co-collaborated and performed in “Hive City Legacy” (Hot Brown Honey) and “Privilege: The Musical” (Louise White). She completed performance residencies with Centre Culturel Irlandais (Romilly Walton Masters Award), Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and Live Art Ireland. She has exhibited work in IMMA, the Butler Gallery, and the Crawford Art Gallery, and her films have been screened in film festivals across the US and Europe. Original 📷 @carolcumminsphoto

So excited to announce that my commission for the Guinness Storehouse is up ! Thank you so much to @homeofguinness @archetype.ie @immaireland for having me. My work is on Crane Street along with other lovely pieces by @thaismunizthais @alicerekab @farouk858 Thank you to my collaborators on the piece Photographer : Murky Anyango @murkyanyango Calligrapher/Photo Assistant : Ciarán McGannon @ciaranmcgannon Editor: Kat Lalor @katlalor.va —- Photo credit (1,2,3) - Leon Farrell @leonfarrellphoto —- Artist Statement “My practice is rooted in costume and prop building from found materials, particularly cardboard, which I use to reimagine mythological figures and hybrid beings. Through photography, I place these fantastical characters into everyday landscapes, layering the supernatural over the familiar. Having lived in Dublin 8 for five years, I witnessed the profound changes shaping the community. This body of work responds to those transformations, interweaving the area’s history with Irish mythology to explore the past, present, and imagined future of Dublin 8. The three images create a narrative arc of resilience, transformation, and rebirth inspired by mythological figures and visual traditions such as tarot and fantastical painting. The first image references a swan of The Children of Lir. It reflects the early history of Guinness and Dublin 8 during the famine, symbolising resilience, kinship, and the strength of community in times of hardship. The second image introduces the Púca. This dual-natured figure embodies the current state of the city – chaotic, unpredictable, yet protective and guiding. By positioning the Púca amid both older and newer architecture, I reflect on gentrification, displacement, and the complex dynamics of change within the area. The final image reimagines the Dullahan, the horseman. While the Dullahan traditionally symbolises death, I use him as a figure of transformation: the necessary shedding of what no longer serves us, to make way for rebirth. In line with my ongoing interest in hybrid human-animal forms, this work highlights the urgency of coexisting with one another, with nature, and with animals”