Category: Publication
Turning Outwards
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in PublicationVisual Arts News Sheet – July/August 2013 Visual Arts News Sheet pdf
Dougal McKenzie – Art & Opportunity
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in PublicationDougal McKenzie on balancing preparedness with understanding the importance of the ‘lucky break’ in his art career. Dougal McKenzie Things of This World mixed media & collage on paper If one thing is true in the life of an artist (whatever stage of your studies or career) it is that no matter how much you think…
QSS members in GLUE exhibition
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in Publication11 April – 3 May 2013 QSS artists Gail Ritchie, David Turner and Brendan O’Neill are currently exhibiting work at the Hardman Hall Gallery, Mercer University, Georgia (USA) as part of the GLUE exhibition curated by Brendan Jamison. The exhibition will travel to the 4Most Gallery, University of Florida in March 2014 and was previously exhibited…
Inspired By Opera
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in PublicationBelfast-based artist Craig Donald, whose upcoming exhibition opens at Queen Street Studios on December 6, cheerfully admits that he’s a bit of an inspirational magpie: anything and everything is grist for his artistic mill. ‘It’s been years,’ says the 25-year-old, ‘since I’ve bought or been given something that didn’t inspire my art in some way.…
The vanishing present
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in PublicationWith the accelerated pace of contemporary life, brought about by urbanisation, new technologies, cheap travel or what has been termed globalisation, space is expanding whereas time is shrinking. Svetlana Boym suggests this has led to a contemporary nostalgia that is not only about the past but ‘the vanishing present.’ Rather than a longing for place,…
An Activist Alphabet
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in Publication15th April 2011 Abstract Title: An Activist Alphabet: Landscape Art and Peace building in Northern Ireland is part of the Paper Session: Geographer- artists: creative practice as research tool? 3: Participating Author(s): Lia D Shimada, PhD* – University College London Abstract: “Post-conflict” Northern Ireland offers rich material for visual artists to explore the politics of peace…
Craig Donald’s Untitled
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in PublicationSlavka Sverakova review. A small number of exhibits manifest a noticeable homology between experimenting in art and the political elite facing crisis and aporia. Alone, unsupported, and watched with apprehension by monochrome paintings and drawings huddled on the other two walls, Craig Donald’s Untitled, June 2010 reminds me of Feuchtwanger’s Aesop standing at the edge…
The Black Mountain
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in PublicationText by Emma Cowan In the true tradition of the people of these islands I will tell a story, my story of the relationship with the mountain, from afar and then close up. I lived last year in North Belfast, Workman Avenue to be precise – off the Shankhill Road, next to the Springfield/Workman separation…
Locus Of Control
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in PublicationText by Eddie Molloy for Locus Of Control exhibition. 13th – 22nd January 2009. Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Read full catalogue. Prelude As Belfast continues to travel the seemingly inexorable road toward ‘normality’, ‘stability’ and ‘peace’, the past dies. Or, more accurately, it becomes delocated. Delocation does not destroy the past but rather shifts it, sanitises…
Ellipsis
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in PublicationAidan Dunne, essay accompanying Ellipsis exhibition by Jennifer Trouton in Millennium Court Portadown, Northern Ireland. “In my Father’s house there are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” John 14:2 “And all the rooms they smell like diesel And you take on…