Ron O'Donnell - Beyond Home
2nd August - 27th September 2025
The Tolbooth, Stirling
Part of Stirling Photography Festival
Ron O'Donnell is a photographic artist renowned for his dazzling constructed and narrative photographs. His images are vibrant, daring and humorous, touching upon allegory, myth, identity, mortality, and politics.
The exhibition includes street photographs of Edinburgh in the 1970s ,and medium format images of the interiors of various workplaces and shops, atmospheric spaces that speak of the city's Industrial character and social fabric. The work then moves toward more constructed imagery, culminating in digitally composed works that reflect a shift in both technique and vision over the decades. Of the exhibition he says: "together, the work traces an evolving dialogue, and my own changing approach to the art of photography."
Ron O'Donnell
We are delighted to support this mini-retrospective of Ron's work in his home town of Stirling and to be partnering again with Stirling Photography Festival in their 2025 festival with their theme of 'Beyond'.
Beyond Home has been curated by Ron exclusively for the Stirling Photography Festival and includes new work specially created for the exhibition. A short film on Ron has been made by Michael Prince and will be shown as part of the exhibition.
Ron’s work has been exhibited widely including at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Montreal; California State University, Los Angeles; Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem; Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis. O’Donnell’s work is held in private and public collections including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
He has been the recipient of various awards including a Leverhulme Trust research project grant, Creative Scotland Travel grant, and the Fox Talbot Award for photography. He is a lecturer in photography at Edinburgh Napier university.
This is the fourth exhibition we have supported as part of Stirlng Photography Festival - Kim Simipson's Girls and Their Mothers in 2019 at Macrobert Arts Centre; and the curated exhibitions at The Tolbooth by Coulson & Tennant and Helene Schitz in 2021; Mirror / Mirror in 2022; and Keeping the Stories Alive alongside What Presence by Harry Papadopoulos.
The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling FK8 1DE
Opening Hours: Tues - Sat 10am till 5pm
Banner Image: Reimaging of The Raft of the Medusa by Théodore Géricault © Ron O'Donnell
Left Image: © Ron O'Donnell
