The Elements of Nature Solo Exhibition opened on the 16th of October 2013, in the Filmbase in Dublin City centre. It was the first large art nude exhibition ever held in Ireland and helped lift a cloak of darkness off the genre.
While in Europe and America, fine art nude photography was an accepted art form, in an Ireland trying to throw off the suffocating moral tyranny of the Roman Catholic Church, where even paintings of the naked form were viewed with suspicion, the photographic nude was perceived as pornography. Hardly surprising then that many of the practitioners of the art, worked and showed behind closed doors using noms de plume.
Since Eamonn Farrell's exhibition in the Filmbase, there have been several more featuring the art nude for by other artists. The mould may have been finally broken, when in 2018, a major Irish Gallery, the Crawford Gallery in Cork City, held a multi disciplinary art show featuring the photographic nude, with paintings and sculptures of the same subject, showing alongside each other. Naked Truth - The Nude in Irish Art, was one of the most visited exhibitions ever held in Ireland and ran for three months in 2018. It featured two of Farrell's works.