Gary MC GINTY

Gary McGinty is an Irish artist, architect, and art director working across fine art and cinematic space. Born on Achill Island on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, his practice is shaped by landscape, geometry, and the constructed image.

Trained as an architect, McGinty brings structural thinking and spatial discipline to his work. His fine art explores systems — grids, flags, alphabets, and symbolic forms — as containers of memory, identity, and collective narrative. Working across acrylic on aluminium, archival pigment print, and sculptural form, he investigates how meaning is built, repeated, fractured, and reassembled.

Alongside his studio practice, McGinty has worked internationally as an art director in film and television, collaborating on major productions including work with directors such as Ridley Scott and Tim Burton. His experience constructing immersive cinematic worlds informs his fine art: both practices are concerned with atmosphere, symbolism, and the architecture of story.

Across series such as Spoken State, Form Field, and Alphaglyph, McGinty constructs visual languages that balance order and emotion — where national colour, geometric repetition, and typographic form become vehicles for cultural memory and personal inquiry.

He lives and works in Dublin.

Exhibitions

Art Evolve, Dublin - 2026

Art Evolve, Dublin - 2025

Art Riddler, Dublin - 2025

Art Ireland, Cork - 2005

RHA - 2004 – Selection for Open Show

Art Ireland, RDS - 2004

Art House, Temple Bar - 1998 Temple Bar International Print Show.
Ormeau Baths Gallery - Dec 1998 - Jan 1999.
Collaboration with Artist John Gerrard, Composer Donnacha Costello, Computer
Programmer Hugh Mc Atmney on a Virtual exhibition entitled “Landscape Portrait”