Manuel McCarthy Valderrama is an Irish-Spanish multidisciplinary artist and facilitator working across a variety of media including large-
scale drawing, publications, sculpture, textile and videoperformance. My interactive-driven work is concerned with object-human relationships through phenomenology and ontology.

McCarthy Valderrama is a member of the National Gallery of Ireland Youth Panel and the Douglas Hyde Gallery Student Forum
2024. His work has been showcased at the National Gallery of Ireland, the Goethe Institut Irland, Pallas Projects/Studios, 126 Gallery, Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Trinity College Dublin and the National Botanic Gardens.

McCarthy Valderrama has shown work internationally with exhibitions in Germany (Silent green) and Spain. They currently work in the
National Gallery of Ireland as a tour guide and facilitator.

McCarthy Valderrama dives into queer phenomenology and object-oriented ontology to understand the world from a non-human
centred perspective. He believes their practice can be an avenue for objects to explore new or different ways of existing and relating to others and to themselves.

He is deeply interested in the use of objects, how we use them and how they use us, and ways to queer-ify these relationships. This current search is centred within the kitchen, its appliances and objects. To date, Manuel has explored forks, spoons, knives, chairs and toasters.