Thomas Brezing is a multi-disciplinary artist and poet. He was born in Germany and moved to Ireland in the early 1990’s and is currently based in North Co. Dublin. He works in various art forms: painting, installation, poetic text, print, drawing and performance. His themes vary and include identity, mortality, loss, the legacies of war, ageing, mental health, his ‘German past’ and ‘Irish present’. Brezing has exhibited widely, nationally and internationally. His debut poetry collection Anvil Dust was published by Scotus Press in April 2022 and his second collection Scaffold will be published in 2024.