Diversity Award 2025

Solstice Arts Centre, in association with Creative Ireland, is delighted to announce Domnick Sorace and Carlos Valdez-Kehoe as the recipients of our 2025 Diversity Award.

This award is aimed at emerging, mid-career and established artists from a minority, ethnic and migrant background in order to provide an opportunity to progress existing work or to develop and create new work.

Domnick Sorace

Domnick Sorace is an Italian/Maltese multimedia artist based in Dublin since 2018, after graduating with a B.A. (Honours) Degree in Fine Arts from the MCAST Institute of Creative Arts, Malta. At the heart of his practice lies a search for balance between permanence and transience, the analytic and the poetic. His work moves between sculpture and installation, with an open approach to media, guided by their sensory and symbolic qualities.

Sorace is currently exhibiting ‘When the Stars Collide’ at Rua Red Arts Centre in Dublin, a multimedia installation that reshapes the gallery floor with paths of sand and heaps of gravel, where an array of fallen stars and a decapitated bronze head reside. The head becomes both relic and narrator, voicing its dilemmas and contemplations. Drifting between analysis and poetry, the head loops back and forth, reflecting upon the spectrum of existence within the space and time it currently occupies.

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Carlos Valdez-Kehoe

Carlos Valdez-Kehoe (Mexico City, 1997) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and pursued further studies in Intermedia and the Art Market at the University of Cologne, Germany. His practice draws on anthropology and ethnography, working with archives, oral histories, and everyday rituals to examine how language, tradition, and social structures are reshaped through processes of cultural assimilation.

His upcoming project ‘COLOURLESS GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY’ examines patterned tablecloths as a material and visual archive through large-scale painting. Presented as an installation, the project will establish a dialogue between the intimate act of eating and its collective dimension as a social practice.

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