Paperwork | In Conversation with Tom Doig and Benjamin Stafford

Public Event
Thursday 30th April
5pm
Studio 12

Join us at Studio 12 for this special event where Tom Doig and Benjamin Stafford discuss the exhibition.

Tom Doig is a Visual Artist living in Cork City, Ireland where he is a member of Backwater Artist’s, Cork Printmakers and Outlaw Studios. His work centres around a unique personal archive of found paper imagery, filed and categorised according to a range of contemporary interests, that are used to examine evolving scientific and cultural explanations of the universe. Exhibitions include Feedback, Studio 12 (2024); Associative Relations, Studio 12 Gallery (2023) Travels in Hyper-Reality, Crane Visual (2023) and Terra Incognita, Skibbereen Arts Festival (2018). Tom was a recipient of the Cork City Arts Individual Artist Bursary in 2019 and the Irish Arts Council Agility Award in 2021.

Benjamin Stafford is a curator and writer based in Ireland, where he works closely with artists to realise exhibitions, performances and publications. Benjamin has worked as a curator and director in public and private institutions, including Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Since 2021 he is Visual Arts Curator at VISUAL, Ireland’s largest purpose-built gallery space where he directs the visual arts programme. Recent projects include solo exhibitions by Dominique White (2025), Amie Siegel, Ulla von Brandenburg (both 2024), Elizabeth Cope (2022), and a major retrospective and publication on Derek Jarman (2019/2020).