A Tail of Two, 2025. Stop-motion animation with sound - Duration: 6:40 minute loop. Purchased by Cork County Council & MTU Arts Office.

A Tail of Two is a hand-drawn stop motion animation exploring the shifting boundaries between the human and the more-than-human world. Guided by the shapeshifting Púca of Irish folklore, the film unfolds as a metamorphic journey through multiple terrains. Charcoal-rendered beings shift between human, non-human, and hybrid states, echoing archival footage of the artist’s infancy and early gestures of becoming. Embracing transformation, chance, and the unknown, A Tail of Two invites reflection on identity, myth, and ecological entanglement—where creatures, stories, and marks converge in a world of ongoing flux, viewed through the lens of the self/other as shapeshifter.

In Two Places, 2025. Duration: 6:40 minute loop.

In Two Places presents a rear projected video onto a circular screen floating above a reflective base of black Perspex. In this work, Danny Foley revisits, re-edits & utilises archival video footage taken from his mother’s video diaries of his infancy, which were recorded as part of her artistic research for her MA and PhD. Here, the artist is seen playing with his shadow as a double or animal other.

By reconnecting with the embodied gestures of his childhood and taking inspiration from the Púca, a shapeshifting spirit from Irish Folklore, Foley seeks to explore ecological and mythological consciousness across time, where the self is seen as unfixed, at times unfamiliar, and entangled with the multiplicities of being within a More-Than-Human World through the perspective of the self/other as shapeshifter.

in the quiet, 2024. Duration: 8:31 minutes.

The short film in the quiet is a collaboration between Marta Massa, Yeasir Arafat and Danny Foley. The film presents footage of Danny Foley painting in his studio, as well as the places he was researching in relation to his work while he was living in Budapest. It was shown beside his paintings in the exhibition THE TALE OF THE NORWAY SPRUCE AND THE BARK BEETLE – Ecological Crisis and Trauma (a group exhibition held at 1111 Gallery, Budapest, 2024). Created as a personal response to the cutting down of deceased pine trees on Gellért Hill, this piece tells a story of the pine trees and of the reciprocity between the human body and the More-Than-Human World.