Tag: Slavka Sverakova
Sinead McKeever. Studio visit
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in PublicationArticle by Slavka Sverakova. Sinead McKeever (MFA, 2008, University of Ulster) is based at Queen Street Studios, Belfast, in the new spaces at Bedford Street. She described her art practice thus: My practice is process lead; through experimentation and rigorous editing I explore the possibilities of found industrial and domestic materials. Ockhams’s Razor, the principle…
Moments of Inception review
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in Publication17 October – 16 November, 2013, QSS Studios and Gallery, Belfast Review by Slavka Sverakova See documentation of the exhibition Expanding the curatorial field Eoin Dara has chosen the unexpected. Objects that may or may not be art, nonchalant debris of something else, birth of an idea made just about visible, or not. Dara describes his…
Precursor at Catalyst Arts Gallery
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in PublicationFrom original published on August 16, 2013, by Slavka Sverakova. Veni, vidi 81 artworks from 81 artists, one, John Ryan, invited, the rest all paying members of Catalyst Arts. It was founded twenty years ago, as Peter Richards puts it in an accompanying brochure, ‘homeless’, appropriating temporary spaces and site specific projects until in 1994…
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…