Slabs Zine, Austin Hearne

Slabs is an ongoing, open-ended photographic project that uses damaged wallpaper pasting tables to display selected images from a personal archive spanning over 30 years, reflecting an ongoing struggle with the volume, value, storage, and meaning of photographic material amid the shift from analogue to digital practice. Through juxtaposed images that move between the personal and political, the work interrogates memory, authorship, and trust in technology, while situating a queer lived experience within profound social and cultural changes in Ireland.

Austin Hearne was Born in Dublin in 1973. He is currently a 3 year member of Temple Bar Galleries and Studios. He Recently completed an episodic project The Raymo series which included Raymo’s Spawn (solo) at Garter Lane, Co. Waterford (2024), Requiem for Raymo (solo) at the RHA Gallery (Nov 22 to Jan 23).  I Fucking Hate you Cardinal Raymo part of the group show Confessions at Lismore Castle Arts (2023) and Love Letters To Cardinal Raymo at Gorey School of Art, Co. Wexford (2021). His film Whispers was shown as part of the Gaze Film Festival where it won Best Irish Short (2022). Select solo shows include Slabs at The Complex, Dublin (2021); Select group shows include staying With The Trouble at IMMA (2025) The Scar as Archive (Stigmata Publishing), Reference Point, London, UK. (2024) Images Are All We Have, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle (2022).

Self-published
Soft cover
Limited Edition of 10
24 pages
210 x 150 mm