IAN JOYCE

Ian Joyce combines live music performance, drawing, painting, sculpture with sound installation.

While on scholarship (1977-1979) at Lester Pearson College,Vancouver Island, Canada, he began composing music and texts, short plays and performances. During 1981 he taught for a period in a primary school on a Tibetan refugee camp in Karnataka, India, before continuing studies in Dublin and West Berlin..

Ian's current work in music and film meditate on the landscape, language and environment where he lives and works in county Donegal.

As well as breaking tunes, his output is available on Soundcloud and Bandcamp.
A member of IMRO ( Irish Music Rights Organisation) and founding artist of LOVE HOSPITAL

In combination with visual art his works are performed in France, Germany, Finland, Iceland, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Bosnia, as well as in Georgia and Armenia, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. 

Ian has also undertaken public art commissions in the Republic of Ireland, in Northern Ireland and in Germany.

He is invited artist of Budapest artist quarter, artist in residence programme, 2026