Chris Falconer (PGDipSci, MA, BA, Prof Dip) is the Marketing & Business Development Manager, for the Architectural Practice of C.J. Falconer & Associates (www.cjfa.ie).
Chris joined CJFA in 2013, and in his position as Marketing & Business Development Manager, he is responsible for a number of roles – in particular, bid management/tendering/procurement; marketing-collateral; marketing insights; awards & article submissions; graphic design & brand-management; website-maintenance; and digital & social media.
With a Masters in Modern & Contemporary Art & Architectural History (completed in 2011 in UCC) – prior to joining CJFA, Chris Falconer worked as part of a number of international art institutes and festivals – including the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), Lismore Castle Arts (Lismore, Waterford), and University College Cork Lewis Glucksman Gallery (Cork, Ireland).
During 2023 and 2024, Chris reinforced his qualifications, first with a Professional Diploma in Graphic Design (completed in October 2023, with Distinction) – and further studying digital media design, digital business strategies, python/programming, & data analytics, as part of the course ‘Postgraduate Diploma in Science in Digital Media with Business Analytics’, in SETU (completed in June 2024, with First Class Honours).
In addition to his position at C.J. Falconer & Associates, Chris continues to practice art, design, and musical compositions – and maintains a number of arts projects. This includes an audio/visual project named ‘Waiting Space’. Pieces from the project have been commissioned by the Luan Gallery in Athlone, Ireland, and Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland (to create an audio/visual piece as part of their ‘Courtyard Calibrations’ programme) – while the Waiting Space piece ‘Cocoon’ was exhibited at Lismore Castle Arts, in Lismore, Waterford, Ireland in 2020 – and was ‘Officially Selected’ for the 16th Waterford Film Festival, in 2022.
Chris was also awarded the 2012 Culture Ireland Travel Bursary for his work at the Irish Pavilion – which funded independent research on Modernist, and contemporary architecture in Berlin, and New York. His particular fields of research include Modernist architecture, architectonics in art, and exclusionary historiography – and he has spoken at conferences, including University College Cork Art History Symposium ‘Doubt & Visual Representation’ – presenting an original paper of research on Irish Architect & Furniture Designer, Eileen Gray.
