James Earley produces abstract works that bring together traditions of painting, design and stained glass art.

James Earley (b.1981), is an Irish artist who lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.  Earley’s practice is rooted in graffiti, graphic design and his family’s heritage in stained glass. He creates artworks that are timeless in their aesthetic and rich in their conceptual narrative. 

The pieces are produced using digital tools to create analogue artworks. Fusing computer-aided fabrication with traditional hand-made techniques, he embraces technology to create complex, layered, highly charged compositions that reimagine the architectural principles and aesthetics surrounding the cannon of stained glass art.

EXHIBITIONS

2024
Play Area, Atelier Now, Dublin

2023
Grit between my teeth, Atelier Now, Dublin

2022
Rally, Glovebox Gallery, Dublin
Compounded Fractures (Solo Show), Hangtough Contemporary, Dublin
Graffiti and Glass Art, Werkbund Hessen e. V., Frankfurt

2020
VUE, RHA, Dublin
Art on Paper Fair, New York

2019
INK, Miami Sound Vision, Hendrick, Dublin
IFPDA Print Fair, New York
Islanders, Venice Glass Week, Venice
Seattle Art Fair, Seattle
RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin

2018
INK, Miami
Things Fall Apart (Solo Show), Dollard Printworks, Dublin

2017
Christie’s, London
Tara X Iverna, Tara Building, Dublin

2016
Collector, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
Moniker Art Fair, London

Murals, installations

2024
The Ties That Bind Us, Lusk Community College, Dublin

2023
The Butterfly Effect, Snugborough interchange, Dublin
Series of 28 x internal murals TikTok Sorting offices, Dublin

2022
The Convergence Point, in collaboration with Qualtrics, Dublin Rithim, in collaboration with Hibernia REIT, Dublin

2021
Anseo Mural Festival, Dublin
Undercurrents, in collaboration with IPUT, Dublin
Circadian, in collaboration with Derix Glasstudios, Germany

2020
Ardú Mural Festival, Cork
The Entries Mural Project, Belfast
Amor Fati, in collaboration with IPUT, Dublin
Hanover Lofts, Dublin
St.Patrick’s Cathedral Grammar School, Dublin

2019
Hendrick Hotel, Dublin
Perpetua, in collaboration with Algorithm, Dublin
Seek Mural Festival, Dundalk
Facebook Data Centre, Clonee

2018
Dublin Airport T2 Mural, in collaboration with DAA, Dublin Weaver Skate Park, in collaboration with DCC, Dublin Junction Festival, Clonmel

2017
Facebook Data Centre, Clonee
Junction Festival, Clonmel
Waterford Walls Mural Festival, Waterford
Croydon Murals Project, Croydon, London

2016
Waterford Walls Mural Festival, Waterford
Jealous Rooftop Project, London
Metropolis Festival, Dublin
The Gibson Hotel, artist in residence programme, Dublin Oxmantown Lofts, Dublin
The Cobblestone, in collaboration with Jameson, Dublin Hit The North Mural Festival, Belfast
Tramore Walls Mural Festival, Tramore