Over more than two decades of art practice, McElwee has won several prizes and has exhibited in Spain, Italy, Scotland and New Zealand. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo and has exhibited at some of the city’s foremost galleries.
Alongside his art practice he is a writer of fiction and a translator specialising in art history, contemporary art and art criticism. Among his translations are art historian Giulia Ingarao’s ‘Leonora Carrington: The Image of Dreams’, a biography of the surrealist artist (Milan, 2022); critic Roberto Lambarelli’s ‘Annina Nosei, an survey of the career of the New York art dealer’ (Rome, 2023); and the edited volume ‘From the Visual to the Visionary: Surrealist Trajectories in Art’ (edited by Alessandra Buccheri, Giulia Ingarao, and Emilia Valenza, Milan, 2023).
Parnell Gallery has represented Dominic McElwee since 2024.
