Patrick Ross McKenna is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland. His practice moves fluidly between painting, photography, performance, and filmmaking, exploring themes of memory, disconnection, and the fractured human experience.

 

With a background that crosses visual art and cinema, McKenna creates work that often blurs the boundaries between narrative and abstraction, inviting audiences into raw, emotionally charged worlds. His films have a visceral, dreamlike quality, while his visual and performance pieces are marked by a restless energy and a deep engagement with the body, place, and time.

 

Currently developing a new movement called META-MINIMALISM, McKenna strips art to its core, rejecting excess and embracing the power of simplicity and subtlety. Meta-minimalism distorts the relationship between form and meaning, leaving intentional gaps for the audience to fill — challenging them to discover depth in what’s not immediately visible or said.

 

Driven by an instinct to capture the invisible — the things that are felt but rarely spoken — McKenna’s work embraces imperfection, vulnerability, and moments of stark, fleeting beauty. He is particularly drawn to experimental processes and to the intersections where disciplines collide and spark new forms.

 

He is currently based in Dublin, developing a slate of new projects across film, painting, and live performance.