Week 2: “The Weight Of Being Human” – QSS collaboration with artist and curator Moran Been-noon

“I started this week with looking at images of heads and thinking of the phrase “heavy is the head that wears the crown”. While this reference stayed behind in the actual work selection, the work I selected has a certain weight, or gravity, to it. In the process the shape of the body became relevant to the sense of weight I was interested in, so the selection is really an expression of the weight of being human, its politics, its history, the everyday of living, ageing, and feeling.” Moran Been-noon

List of work:


01. Sharon Kelly: Cave (above image), watercolour, pencil on paper, 29 x 21 cm, 2017

02. Jennifer Trouton: One of Many, oil and paper on board, mixed sizes – overall dimensions 183 x 152 cm, 2019

03. Hannah Clegg: The Sacred Hunt (Hortus Conclusus), oil on canvas, 120 x 152 cm, 2019

04. Craig Donald: Caroline and Jackie, oil on canvas, 35 x 30 cm, 2019

05. Majella Clancy: A Mighty Woman (sketchbook detail), oil, collage, pen, pencil and screenprint, dimensions variable, 2020

06. Craig Donald: Ozymandias, mixed media wall installation, dimensions variable, 2018

07. Sharon Kelly: Still from Revolving, stop-motion charcoal drawing animation, 2018

08. Jennifer Trouton: Harrowing, oil on linen, 80 x 54 cm, 2011

09. Joy Gerrard: Protest Crowd, (The North is Next. Dublin Castle. June 2018), ink on paper, mounted on aluminium, white box frame, 40 x 58 cm, 2018

10. Eanna Mac Cana: Screen, stop-motion animation, 2019

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