FADE Project

ALT White text sits on a blue background beside an image of artist Niall de Buitléar. Text reads: Artists in Profile Onym by Niall de Buitléar 'Onym' is a web-based, interactive audio-visual project created by visual artist Niall de Buitléar during the Covid-19 pandemic. The artwork takes the form of a standalone interactive website.

ALT White text sits on a blue background beside images of onym by artist Niall de Buitléar. Text reads: -onym The work is based around pairs of antonyms forming conventional binary oppositions such as "life" and "death". For each pair of antonyms, a thesaurus was used to build a chain of synonyms to bridge the gap between them.

ALT White text sits on a blue background beside images of onym by artist Niall de Buitléar. Text reads: "The closure of my studio due to Covid-19 led me to look for alternative ways of working and the Arts Council's Covid-19 Response award provided me with an opportunity to revisit an artists book that I made early in my career and to develop the idea as an online artwork." - Niall de Buitléar

ALT White text sits on a blue background beside images of onym by artist Niall de Buitléar. Text reads: Onym was part-funded by the Arts Council's Covid-19 Response Award. We aim to further support digital arts projects like Onym in 2024, primarily through key actions outlined in our Digital Arts Policy.

ALT A collage of headshots of different Irish artists, appearing to sprout out of the pages of a book, on which is a shamrock, film spool and drumkit. The figures are surrounded by confetti and the background of the image is a blue sky, interspersed with cloud.