NIGEL ROLFE
EDUCATION
Farnham School of Art, 1969 - 1971 Bath Academy of Art, 1971 - 1974
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012 The Dark End of the Street: Works from Contested Ground, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2010 European Dream, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Unseen, 10 Works 1982 and 2010, Burren College of Art Gallery, Ireland 2009 Notes on a Return – The Rope, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England Inversion, University College Dublin, Permanent Video Installation, Dublin, Ireland 2008 The Milk of Human Kindness / Video 2008 and selected videoworks 1983 - 2008 / Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Dust Breeding, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2006 Momento Mori, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork Flowers-Momento Mori, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2005 The Book of Signs, Polaris Gallery, Paris, France Many Silver Things, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2003 From Darkness to Annihilation, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland 2002 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Absence and Loss, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 2001 Performances, fotografias y videos Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain Ghost, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2000 Life Without Life (installation), Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Learnington Spa, Warwickshire, England Corps, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Introduction 1, Centre Culturel Condorcet, Chateau Chinon, France Lament, site specific installation on River Foyle, Derry, Northern Ireland The River The Path, Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland Joy, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1999 Life Without Life, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Works with Photography, Inauguration of CAMAC, Marnay Art Centre, Marnay-sur-Seine, France Two Drums, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France 1998 Life Without Life, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Nigel Rolfe, monocromatic section, XXIV Biennial Sao Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 1997 Nigel Rolfe - Two Drums, The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland Private Pictures, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Listening to the Landscape, Academia Bartolomeo Cristofori, Florence, Italy; Galerie Polaris, Paris, France; and Inis Meain, Aran Islands, Ireland 1996 Nigel Rolfe - Videos 1983- 1996, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France La Rosa, Red on Green Gallery, Dublin, Ireland E Bamba lo Fosho (he picks up the spade), Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Video Works, 1983-96, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 1995 Photographic project of knitwear from Inis Mean, Aran Islands, Ireland, for trade fairs in Europe, America, and Japan Working with Christy Moore as co-producer on a recording project 1994 Field of Dreams, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Per For Mer, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY
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Archive, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1993 Resonator, City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Everyday Objects, Hiltrud Jordan Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1993 Frozen Moments, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts, Cleveland, OH Bemis Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska (two person with Terry Allen) Children Love Children, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 1992 Private Pictures, El Sur Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan Frozen Moments, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY Hands, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Resonator, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Wind From The North, Muury, Helsinki, Finland (Sound & slide installation) The Great Book, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1991 Hands, Hiltrud Jordan Galerie, Cologne, Germany Works With Photography, Dolan / Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Commissioned work, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Lament, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland 1990 Shrouds Woodblocks Photoworks Texts Sounds, Dolan / Maxwell Gallery, New York, NY Black and White Photoworks, Hiltrud Jordan Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1986 Island Stories, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England 1984 Various Works, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1982 Nine Shrouds, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland Ground Drawings, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1978 Red Towers, Individual Parts, Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff, Wales Red Wedge, Acme Gallery, London, England Zebra, Time / Space Series, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland 1977 Various Works, Funge Arts Center, Gorey, Wexford County, Ireland 1976 Balance Structures, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 A Rocky Road, curated by Sean Lynch, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland 2010 History of Disappearance - Live art from New York 1975 – present, Aarhus Art Building, Denmark 2008 10,000 to 50: Gerard Byrne, Paul Doran, Nigel Rolfe & Corban Walker, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Immergence, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Off Site, National Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Abhar agus Meon, UCD Newman House, Dublin, Ireland Performance/Video/Photo, Bussan Biennale, Korea 2006 Cross-section, from the Collection of the Arts Council, Sligo Art Gallery, Ireland 2005 Siar, 50, 50 Years of Contemporary Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Bread Matters, Performance and Exhibition, West Cork Arts Centre, West Cork, Ireland Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland The Rope (from the Franklin Furnace New York’s History of the Future program), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England 2003 Summer Exhibition, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Summer Exhibition, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland Anti-war Exhibition, Royal College of Art, Photography Department, London, England 2002 The Unblinking Eye, lens based work from the I.M.M.A collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Ireland Something Else - Irish Contemporary Art, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland and traveling
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to: Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Oulu City Art Museum, Joensuu Art Museum, Finland 2001 Summer exhibition, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland FIAC, Galerie Polaris, Paris, London Contemporary Art Fair, Chicago Art Fair, Koln Art Fair, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2000 New Media, New Faces, New Direction, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Shifting Ground, Selected Works of Irish Art 1950 – 2000, The Rope, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Summer exhibition, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Kingdom of Heaven, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland Chicago Art Fair, Green On Red Gallery; Brussels Art Fair, Polaris Galerie, Paris, France London Contemporary Art Fair, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1999 Inevitable Progression I, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA The Waters, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland 1998 Récentes Oeuvres, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Christmas Show, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland XXIV Biennal de Sao Paulo, Brasil Les ordonnances de l’eau, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France Troubled: Photography, Film and Video from Northern Ireland, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC 1997 Christmas Show, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea 71:40, Milch Gallery, London, England Power, curated by Sung Wan-kyung, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea 1997 Diverse Visions//photographic perspectives,The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, curated by Jayne H. Baum and Vicky Clark, Pittsburgh, PA 1996 Self-Portrait in Despair - for those who confuse creativity with capitalism, Temple Bar Print Suite, Dublin, Ireland The Celts are Coming, Arhus Kunstbygning, Arhus, Denmark Photowork for Invited Ev+A '96 adjuncted by Guy Tortosa, postcard for EV+A '96 artist's postcards 1995 PENNART, The Department of Fine Arts, Meyerson Hall Galleries, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Poetic Land - Political Territory, Northern Centre for Comtimporary Art, Sunderland, City Library and Arts Centre, Sunderland, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, AberystwythArt Centre, Oriel, Cardiff, Barbican Centre, London, City Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stiriling, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Alloway, England 1994 Paradoxical Scale, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Brought to Book, Flowers East, London, England 1993 Fields of Vision: Selected Works by Contemporary Irish Artists, curated by Peter Lukehart, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Photoworks, University of Massachusetts, Herter Art Gallery Amgerst, MA. touring to Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Survival in the Technological World, curated by Philip LaDouceur, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA Fictions of the Self, curated by Michael Coblyn and Trevor Richardson, traveled to: Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Palazzo de Exhibitions, Rome, Italy; Museum of Modern Art, Nice, France Island Stories, video, shown in To Camera, a Film and Video Umbrella traveling program:
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Watershed, Bristol, England; University of Warwick, England; Center for Contemporary, Open Space, Reading; England, Broadway, Nottingham, England 1992 From Day to Night, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan (billboard) 1992 Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography, curated by Bill Ewing, Serpentine Gallery, London, England, traveled to: Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland; Manchester City Art Gallery; Mead Gallery, Arts Center, University of Warwick, Coventry, England Island Stories, video, shown in To Camera, a Film and Video Umbrella traveling program, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England 1991 The Fifth Province: Some Contemporary Art from Ireland, The Edmonton Art Gallery,Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Inheritance and Transformation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland The Great Book, slide installation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1990 Truly Is This The Land Of Milk And Honey? "A New Necessity", First Tyne International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Faculty Exhibition, Kent Blossom Festival School, Kent State University, Kent, OH, Dolan / Maxwell, New York, NY 1989 Nacht und Nebel, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England International Impact Art Festival, Kyoto, Japan 1988 Four Moments in History, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England, Four Moments in History, Rochdale Museum, Rochdale, Yorkshire, England 1987 Four Moments in History, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England 1986 Crossroads, Divisions, New Turns of Mind, traveling exhibition, tours USA and Canada New Work Newcastle, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England 1985 Crossroads, Divisions, New Turns of Mind, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. 1983-5 West of West: Ancient Monuments of Ireland, traveling exhibition: Canada (Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin and National Museums of Canada) 1983 The Wings of Fear, Junior Faculty Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland OFAJ/DFJW 20 Years, Philomene Magers Galerie, Bonn and Parc Chanot, Marseilles, France 1982 Four Artists, Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland SADE, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland Arteder '82, Bilbao, Spain Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick, Ireland 1981 West of West, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland Environmental Exhibition, Tulfarris Gallery, Wicklow, Ireland Not Waving, Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1980 Without the Walls, Institute of Contemporary Art Main Gallery, London, England West of West, Ancient Monuments of Ireland, Institute of Contemporary Art New Gallery, London, England, traveled to: Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland; David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland; Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland Bridge, Orchard Gallery, Derry Ireland Living Art, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland ROSC 1980, University College, Dublin, Ireland Paris Biennale, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Limerick '80, Limerick and Kilkenny, Ireland 1979 Attack/Defense, Darkspace, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland Oasis 3, Wilton Place, Dublin, Ireland
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1978 Living Art, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Performance Festival, Documentation, Beursschouwberg, Brussels, Belgium Performance, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry, Belfast, Ireland 1978 Dublin Student/Staff Show, National College of Art, Dublin, Ireland Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 1977 Group Sculpture, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland Oasis 2, St. Anne's Park, Dublin, Ireland Oasis Documentation, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland (Arts Council Tour) On Site, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England Five Artists, Air Gallery, London, England Dublin Staff Show, National College of Art, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland 1976 Fractions, Grapevine Center, Dublin, Ireland Edinburgh Arts 1976, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, traveled to: St. Andrews, Inverness, and Aberdeen, Scotland; Cardiff, Wales; Dublin, Belfast, and Strathclyde, Ireland 1976 Two Man Show, Bury St. Edmunds Gallery, Suffolk, England 1975 The Video Show, Serpentine Gallery, London, England Oasis 1, Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland Summer Show, Arts Council of Great Britain, Serpentine Gallery, London, England Living Art, National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1974 Illusions, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales City Arts Project, Portsmouth, England 1973 Aerial Structures, Ceolfrith Center, Sunderland Flags, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2012 Pendulum, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2011 Broken-Torn, Miro Foundation, Mallorca, Spain Follow Voice Keen, InisCealtra Festival, Mount Shannon, Co Clare, Ireland Absence & Loss / Flat Pack / Run On, University of Limerick, Ireland 2010 Warsaw Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland Performance Platform Lublin 2010, Galeria Lairynt, Lublin, Poland European Dream, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Under Darkening Skies, Lough Boora Parklands, 2009 Dust in Face, Royal Academy Summer Show, London, England Failure/Success - Dust Breeding, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff, Wales 2007 Tulca, Galway, Ireland Festival in Context of Differences, Warsaw, Poland Bodily Functions, Cork, Ireland 2006 Momento Mori, West Cork Arts Center, Ireland 2005 In the Condition of Dust, Project Bread Matters III, West Cork Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland 2004 Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary 2002 I Am The Camera, Cyclops, Switch and Video Eye, three performances in Cork in association with the Cork Film Centre, Cork, Ireland 1999 Black Market Network Meetings, 1998/99 European Tour, grant aided by ‘Kaleidoscope’,IG Farbenhaus, Frankfurt, Germany; Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1998 Copo de Leite, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland Black Market Network Meetings, 1998/99 European Tour, grant aided by ‘Kaleidoscope’, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria 1997 Black Market International: Maschinenhaus Zeche Carl, Essen, Germany; Kunstraum,
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Dusseldorf, Germany; Trinitatis-Kirche, Koln, Germany Black Market International: Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland Liquid Visions, Black Market International, Altes Casino, Lucerne, Switzerland 1996 Lake, Perfomance for Television, Cusai Ealaine, RTE, Dublin, Ireland Drum, Arhus Kunstforening, Germany Drum, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC 1995 With Black Market International, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland 1995 East West Study Project, Kunstraum, Dusseldorf, Institut Mathildenhohe, Darmstadt, Germany 1994 The Reindeer Age, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Four Moments in History, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY The Cross or The Gun, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Aginst Nature, Glor concer for Thorp/Sellafield, Dublin, Ireland Wreath Cursai Ealaine, R.T. E. Television with Garvan Gallagher and Tommy Hayes Live performance for A.A.R.T. Raio, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland ARCHIVE, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Per For Mance, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY 1993 The Reindeer Age, Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany Black Market Workings, Offenen Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria Politics of Excess, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Serbo-Croat-Muslim, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NB 1992 From Day to Night, Toppan T.I.C. Studio, Museum City Tenjin '92, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan Red and Green, Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York, NY Black Market Workings, BWA Gallery, Sandomierz, Poland; Cultural Center, Warsaw, Poland; Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Empedokles, Alte Reithalle, Kassel, Germany. 1991 Off the Beaten Track, The Fifth Province - Some Contemporary Art From Ireland, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Black Market Workings, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, Creative Time's Art In The Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY; Helsinki Festival, Finland; Mousson Turm, Frankfurt, Germany; Bern, Switzerland; Schlossli Gotzental, Lucerne, Switzerland 1990 Black Market Workings, "Resource Kunst", Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary; Stadtgalerie, Saarbrucken, Germany; "Edge '90", Newcastle Upon Tyne, England; Glasgow, Scotland Interscop, Galeria Dzialan, Warsaw, Poland Outside the Window China Lies Bleeding, Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland In Rehearsal, with the "Migrating Birds" at The Rialto, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Nothern Ireland Working Together, with Alastair MacLennan Boris Nieslony, and Brian Catling, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland We Have Treated, Festival d'Intervention, Le Lieu, Quebec, Canada A Last Supper, with Norbert Klassen, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, New York, NY 1989 The Engine Room, Newcastle Polytechnic, Arts Council of Great Britain Performance Artist in Residence, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Black Market workings, Neue Galerie, Schlossli Gotzental, Lucerne, Switzerland and Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany Work Made Live, Irish tour: The Arts Center at Nuns Island, Galway; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny; Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland Black Market workings, Het Recept, Amsterdam, Holland; Neue Galerie, Schossli Gotzental, Lucerne, Switzerland; Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany Nacht und Nebel (Night and Fog), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England Working Out, Working In, with Alastair MacLennan, LACE, Los Angeles, CA Auf Granit Beissen (Like Biting Stone), Festival de Tardor de Barcelona, Spain 1988 The Rope, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England (Museum of
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Modern Art, New York, International Committee) Shooting/Shitting, Edge '88 Festival, London, England We walk, we talk, we stand in line, and Black Market workings, Expanded Theater Festival Posnan, Poland Animal I, Audiovidual Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal 1987 The Rope, Redemption, Derry, Ireland; Lublin, Krakow, Poland; Philips Gallery, Banff, Canada; Western Front, Vancouver, Canada 1987 Shooting/Shitting Part I, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, EM Media, Calgary, Island, Canada 1986 Island Stories and The Rope, Institute of Contemporary Arts Gallery, London, England; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England; World Wide Video Festival, Gemeentemuseuml, The Hague, Holland; Dublin Theater Festival, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland Nodding Man, Air Gallery, London, England; Bath Festival, Bath, England Island Stories, National Institute of Higher Education, Limerick, Ireland The Rope, Groningen, Holland, Cork University, Cork, Ireland 1985 Going Boeing, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Germany, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY The Rope, Bath Art/Music Conference, Bath, England 1984 As It Had Always Been, A work for television, RTE I, The Live Arts Show, Ireland The Rope That Binds Us Makes Them Free, LACE, Los Angeles, CA; New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, SUSHI, San Diego, CA; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Belluard '84 Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland; Kenmare Arts Festival, Kenmare, Ireland Irish Town Squares, Wexford, traveled to: Waterford, Cork, Galway, and Sligo, Ireland The Rope, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL The Rope Videos, Brighton, traveled to: London, Bristol, Nottingham, and Newcastle, England Apollo, Mallow Arts Festival, Mallow, Ireland 1983 Dance, Slap for Africa, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Jungle, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Zebra Man, The Late Late Show, Irish Television Dance, Slap for Africa, traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Franklin Furnace, New York, NY; Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; Sigma Festival 19, Bordeaux, France; OFAJ/DFJW, Reinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany Against Nature, Kenmare Arts Festival, Kerry, Ireland The Rope, OFAJ/DFJW, Marseilles, France; Triskel, Cork, Ireland The Rope That Binds Us Makes Them Free, Sigma Festival 19, Bordeaux, France 1982 Clay Beds, 5 days, Third Eye Center, Glasgow, Scotland Advance, NOW Festival, Belfast, Ireland Echoes, Le Frigo, Lyon Symposium, Lyon, France 1982 Dark Star - Nine Days, Derelict Space, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland Red Head I, Coimbra, Portugal Red Head II, Almada Festival, Portugal Night Passage, Leeds, England Jungle I, II, & III, The Basement, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England 1981 Moon and Stars, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland Orange Man/Green Man, 3rd Symposium, Lyon, France Tricolor, For Video, Fait Divers System, Lyon, France Grid, Tulfarris Gallery, Wicklow, Ireland With Neon Arrow, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland For Egypt, a Memory, Mallow Arts Festival, Ireland 1980 Cast - 2 days, Institute of Contemporary Art Gallery, London, England Drawing with stick, Dov'e La Tigre, Milan, Italy
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For Fiorucci, Lyon Performance Symposium, Lyon, France Bed, ROSC, 1980, University College, Dublin, Ireland Across the Water, Paris Biennale (three performances), Paris, France Rolling Drawing, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland Targets, Mixage International, Rotterdam, Breda and Utrecht, The Netherlands Four Symbols, a drawing, Nijmegen, Holland 1979 Crawling, Aisling Gheal, RTE 2 Television, Dublin, Ireland and De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Markings/Face Drawing, Seachtain na Gaeilge, Dublin, Ireland Attack/Defense - Working in Darkspace, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland Drawing/Two Buckets, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland Ramp Drawings, OASIS 3, Dublin, Ireland Drawing with Bucket, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Zones, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY Food, Triskel Arts Center, Cork, Ireland 1978 Red Tower, The Treatment of Individual Parts, Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff, Wales Red Wedge, Working, Acme Gallery, London, England Zebra, Crawling, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland 1977 I Love Art, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland Running, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast, Ireland Crawling/Markings, Symposium Neue Gallery, Aachen, Germany Mound Man, St. Andrews University and Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland Towers, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Wrecsam and BBC Television Wales The Treatment of Individual Parts, Air Gallery, London, England Red Tower, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland 1976 The Table, Dublin, Ireland Mound Man, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 1974 Bird, Dog, Tree, Boston and Tokyo
SOUNDWORKS
2000 Joy Soundtrack, produced by Nigel Rolfe, recorded by J.J. Rolfe, Back Lane Studios, Dublin. Red Earth’, published on compilation album ‘Siol’ produced by the Irish Seed Savers Association 1999 Underpass, soundtrack for video recorded in Back Lane Studios, Dublin, by J.J. Rolfe, produced by Nigel Rolfe 1998 Copo de Leit, soundtrack for performance in National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland 1997 Island Protected by a Bridge of Glass, soundtrack for Listening to the Landscape tape slide work, featuring Mick Lally and Aine de Blacam. Produced by Nigel Rolfe ad recorded by John Grimes, Back Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland 1996 Lake Soundtrack Performance for Television, Cursai Elaine, Produced by Nigel Rolfe, recorded by John Grimes in the Back Lanes Studios, Dublin, Ireland 1995 With Christy Moore as co-producer on a recording project 1994 ARCHIVE Soundtrack, ARCHIVE Changing Streams in Mid-Horse, ARCHIVE Islalnd Stories, ARCHIVE Music for The Great Book, ARCHIVE Songs, ARCHIVESweeney Dance - 6 CDR's remixed and re-mastered for the ARCHIVE exgibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irelnd 1993 Lament project, released by RealWorld records. Fourteen solo airs in the Irish tradition 1991 The Great Book, produced by Nigel Rolfe. Recorded by Nigel Rolfe and Mark McLoughlin with extracts from the Great Book narrated by McDara Woods 1990 LAMENT, produced by Nigel Rolfe, solo airs sung and played by traditional Irish musicians
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The Middle of the Island (Lyrics written by Nigel Rolfe with Christy Moore sung by Christy Moore and Sinead O'Connor on Christy Moore's albumVoyage) 1989 Sweeney Dance, Instrumental commission for DAGHDA, New Music New Dance, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland. Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland Solo appearances by Garvan Gallagher, Declan Masterson, Paddy Glackin 1989 Breath On A Cold Glass, recorded and mixed at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland with the Migrating Birds: Greg Boland, John Donnelly, Garvan Gallagher, Paul McAteer, Dennis Woods, with special appearances by Mary Black, John Sheehan, Lee Jaffe 1988 Saturday Night Live, performed with the Mountain Men. Recorded on the Edge's mobile and at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin. Released on Cone Records, Dublin, Ireland. Shadow Play, piece for Telephone Artline, International Sculpture Conference, Dublin, Ireland 1987 Lower It Up/Lover, single, Cone Records, Dublin, Ireland Four Moments In History, Cone/Happin Gallery, Sheffield, England Window of Life: Audio Arts Volume 8 Nos., 2/3. Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, LP on Cone Records, Dublin, Ireland 1986 The White Horse Has Gone From The Hills of England, In The Body, Window of Life with John Duffy and Pearse Dunne. Tracks for Channel 4 Television, London, England Island Stories, Reekus Records, LP released on RCA, London, England 1985 The Nodding Man, with Jeffrey Brooks, Bath Festival, England The Rope, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England 1984 As It Had Always Been, music for a video film with Pat O'Donnel and Steve Belton now recorded "Fountainhead" for China Records 1983 Dance, Slap for Africa. The Late Late Zebra Man 1983 Standing in a Vertical Position The Rope That Binds Us Makes Them Free 1982 Music for Nine Shrouds, with Pat O'Donnel and Steve Belton
FILMS AND VIDEOS
2006 Memento Mori, shot by Nigel Rolfe, edited by J.J. Rolfe Wave, shot by Nigel Rolfe, edited by J.J. Rolfe 2005 Many Silver Things, shot by Nigel Rolfe, edited by J.J. Rolfe 2004 The Burning Flowers, shot by Nigel Rolfe, edited by J.J. Rolfe 2002 Cyclops, Switch, ‘Video Eyes’ shot by Roisin Leggett on Mini-DV, and Chris Hurley on Hi8, edited by Chris Hurley at the Cork Film Centre 2001 Ghost Projection with slides and sound 2000 The River The Path’, shot by Nigel Rolfe on Hi8, edited on Avid by Mark Quinn Joy, shot by Nigel Rolfe on Hi8, edited on Avid by Mark Quinn 1999 Underpass’, shot by Nigel Rolfe on Hi8, edited on Avid by Mark Quinn. Extracts, compiled on Avid 1998 Fountain, filmed by Nigel Rolfe on DVCam, DV200P, edited by Mark Quinn on Avid, original sound track produced by Nigel Rolfe, recorded in Back Lane Studios by J.J. Rolfe 1997 Two Drums, shot by Nigel Rolfe on Hi8, edited by Mark Quinn on Beta SP, original soundtrack produced by Nigel Rolfe, recorded in Back Lane studios by John Grimes 1996 Drum, Camera Seamus Deasy, shot on Betacam SP 1995 A Special Selection of Works by Nigel Rolfe 1983-1994, NY International Video Festival, Knitting Factory and Mary Anthony Gallery, New York, NY 1994 ARCHIVE, The Rope, ARCHIVE, Dance, ARCHIVE, Slap, ARCHIVE, Island Stories, ARCHIVE, Hand On Face, shown during ARCHIVE exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1992 Island Stories and Hand on Face, exhibited in Panorama Europeo del Videoarte, Madrid, Spain 1991 Documentary on Belgrano, Newcastle Polytechnic/Arts Council of Great Britain, England
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BBC2 Late Show, Documentary on Irish Art, London, England 1989 Bodoquera, with Freddy Contreras; camera Sean Corcoran; editor Tim Morris 1988 Island Stories, Live at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, post produced at Windmill Land Pictures, Dublin, Ireland 1988 Hand On Face, recorded and edited at Windmill Lane Pictures, Dublin, (Beta SP edited on 1"); camera Sean Corcoran; editor Brian McCue; screened on diamond vision at Wembley Stadium, London, for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday concert and subsequent anti-apartheid rally in Hyde Park. Screened on Dutch and Italian Television and selected for the Australian Video Festival 1987 Communists and the Americans, (1" video tape) Windmill Lane Pictures, Dublin, Ireland 1986 African Flower, (1" video tape) Windmill Lane Pictures, Dublin, Ireland The Rope, Live in Newcastle (3/4" low-band video tape, color/sound) director/camera John Adams, Projects England Island Stories, Pal/NTSC, 3/4" Hi-band videotape, colour/sound, editors Colum Maguire, Jim McGurck, Brian McCue, camera Declan Quinn, Sean Corcoran, Projects U.K. The Nodding Man; Pal/NTSC (3/4" hi-band video tape, color/sound) editor Tim Morris; camera Sean Corcoran; Windmill Lane Pictures, Dublin; Swedish Television "Nattovning" 1985 Island Stories, Pal/NTSC; (3/4" hi-band video tape, color/sound) editors Colum Maguire, Jim McGurck, Brian McCue; camera Declan Quinn, Sean Corcoran, Projects England Pieces, Europe/Australia 1984/5. Extracts compiled on Avid. 1984 Montreal Film Festival 1983 Slap Dance, Pal/NTSC; (3/4" low-band umatic video tape, color/sound) editor Jim McGurck, camera Declan Quinn The Rope That Binds Us Makes Them Free, Pal/NTSC; (C format video tape, color/sound) editor Meiert Avis; camera Declan Quinn; Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland 1982 Nine Shrouds, Pal; (3/4" low-band umatic video tape, color/sound) editor Se Merry, Video Roma Festival 1981 Cast, Pal; (3/4 " umatic video tape, color/sound editor Jim McGurck Bed-Lying Positions, Pal; (3/4 " umatic video tape, color/sound) editor Jim McGurck Across the Water, Pal; (3/4 " umatic video tape, color/sound) editor Jim McGurck 1973 The Two activities, (16mm film, b&w/sound)
SET DESIGNS
1990 Freedom's Gait, Dance Theater of Ireland, Tivoli Theater, Dublin, Ireland 1983 The Blue Macushla, by Tom Murphy. Red Rex Theater Company, Dublin Theater Festival and Irish Tour 1982 For the Kips, the Digs, The Village Inner City Festival, Dublin, Ireland The Rock and Roll Show, Dublin Theater Festival 1981 Mac Con Glin, Dublin Theater Festival 1979 The Ha' Penny Place, by Jim Sheridan for the Project Theater, Dublin Theater Festival 1975 Three Plays by W.B. Yeats, Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland
COMMISSIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
2009 Keynote Address at IMA, Derry, Ireland Lectured at RCA, London, England Lectured at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Lectured at University of Virginia, Richmond, VA 2005 Peripheral Visions; Recent video art from across Europe, curated by Nigel Rolfe, and Cliodhna Shaffrey, Cork Film Centre, Cork, Ireland
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1996 Photowork for Invited EV+A '96 Adjudicated by Guy Tortosa, postcard for EV+A '96 artist's postcards 1995 Photographic project of knitwear from Inis Mean, Aran Islands, Ireland, for trade fairs in Europe, the United States and Japan
AWARDS
2008 UL Arts Office, The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and the Limerick College of Art and Design, Performance Artist in Residence, Ireland 2004 Travel Grant, Department of Arts, Sport, Tourism 2001 Arts Council Commission with the Cork Film Centre, Ireland 2000 Elected to Aosdana 1998 Department of Foreign Affairs, Cultural Section, Travel Grant 1996 Irish Arts Council, Artfight, Department of Foreign Affairs, Cultural Section, Travel Grant 1994 Red Drewing, for Therapy?'s album Troublegum Hand on Face, for Therapy?'s single Die Laughing Child's Hand with Cross from Next Door, for Therapy?'s single Isolation 1993 Irish Arts Council, Artflight, Department of Foreign Affairs, Cultural Section, Travel Grant 1989 Irish Arts Council Touring Exhibition Award Arts Council of Great Britain, Performance Artist in Residence, Newcastle Polytechnic, England 1984 Irish Arts Council Touring Exhibition Grant Irish Arts Council Travel Grant 1983-88 Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Travel Awards 1982 Sade Sculpture Bursary 1980 Carrolls Award 1976 Irish Arts Council Award
SELECTED PUBLISHING PROJECTS, CATALOGUES, and BOOKS
2002 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea in conjunction with the exhibition at Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Absence and Loss in conjunction with the exhibition at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland. 2000 Nigel Rolfe Live, Beyond Borders Publications 1998 Nudes 2, Carre Bevilacqua-curator, Graphis, New York, NY Two Drums, catalogue, Orchard Gallery, Derry 1996 Nigel Rolfe Videos 1983-96, catalogue, Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 1994 Archive, from Beyond the Pale, catalogue, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Hand with Oil, reproduced in Chelsea Arts Club Yearbook Breakwell, Ian and Hammond, Paul, Brought to Book, Penguin, London, England 1993 Jappe, Elisabeth. Performance, Ritual, Prozeb, Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Europa, Prestel-Verlag Lukehart, Peter. Fields of Vision: Selected Works by Contemporary Irish Artists, catalogue, The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, pp. 20-21, two b&w ills Richardson, Trevor. FICTIONS OF SELF: The Portrait In Contemporary Photography, catalogue, 1993 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC and Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, p. 33, b&w ill 1992 Resonator, catalogue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 20 b&w ills 1990 A New Necessity, catalogue, Newcastle on Tyne, England 1989 -----. Avant Garde & Popular Culture, round table discussion, Circa Magazine, Belfast, Ireland -----. British Performance Series, catalogue, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada 1988-89-----. 3 Postcards, Dublin, Ireland
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
2012 Sigler, Jeremy. Nigel Rolfe, interview in BOMB Magazine, March 2012 2009 --- Idoménée´ Photography, Contemporary Art, Interviews Issue 2, Paris France, Winter 2009, pp 1, 76, color ills. 2005 Leach, Cristin. Many Silver Things, The Culture Section, Sunday Times, July 17 Leahy, Billy. Many Silver Things by 2005 Dunne, Aidan. Many Silver Things Green on Red Gallery, Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, pps.22-28 July 13 Circa Magazine No. 105, September 2003, review of ‘From Darkness to Annihilation’ by Mark Ewart. The Culture section, Sunday Times, August 17th, 2003, by Cristin Leach ‘La Nacion’ September 14th 2001, Buenos Aires, Argentina by Santiago Garcia Navarro. 2000 Ruane, Mebh. The Culture Section, Sunday Times, September 3 Perrée, Rob, Weer Kunst In Het Warenhuis?, Kunstbeeld, Amsterdam, February, pps. 37-39, color ill. 1999 Walker, Dorothy. The Waters, The Sunday Times, January West, Richard. Dead Flowers, Source: Ireland’s Photographic Review, No. 20, Autumn, 1999 Tipton, Gemma. Lest they Fade, Circa 89, Autumn 99. 1998 Vine, Richard. Report from Korea, Art in America, July -----. Tirages et Retirages: Comment Évaluer une Photo, Liberation, No.30, b & w ill. 1997 Thomas, Mary. Photography Exposed to New Processes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA, June 21, b & w ill. Royse, Erik, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Features Diverse visions//photographic perspectives, Pittsburgh Family Times, Pittsburgh, PA, Vol.5, Issue 4, May, p.4 Shearing, Graham. Area full of 'Diverse Visions' in Art, The Tribune, Pittsburgh, PA, April 27, color ill. -----. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts features Diverse Visions\\photographic perspectiva, Pittsburgh Family Times, Pittsburgh, PA, April Zambo, Caran-Marie. Arts Displays Offer Diversity, The Daily News, McKeesport, PA, May 8 1996 Clancy, Luke. Nigel Rolfe at Green on Red Galley, Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, August 31 Dunne, Aidan. Nigel Rolfe at Green on Red Gallery, Critics Choice, Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland, September 1 Guggémos, Alexia. Soubresauts et Payages - L'Irlande, Technikart, Paris, France, No. 4 Higgins, Judith. Report from Ireland, Art from the Edge (Part II), Art in America, New York, NY, April Owens, Kieran. La Rosa Exhibition-Nigel Rolfe, Red on Green Gallery, The Event Guide, Dublin, Ireland, August 14-27 1995 Patterson, Tom. Performance, Gallery Exhibits Converge at UNC-G, Eye on Art, Winston Salem Journal, February 4, b & w ill. 1994 Aletti, Vince.Voice Choice, The Village Voice, New York, NY, February 22, p. 68 Clancy, Luke. Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, October 18 Fallon, Brian. A Strong Showing, The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, September 28 Farrell, John M. IMMA Shows Will Knock Youf for Six, The Sunday Press, October 2 Ruane, Medb, Art: From Beyond the Pale, Culture Ireland, October, p.52 1993 Clayton, Tony. Rolfe Mourns North's Dead, Sunday Tribune, March 14, p.9 Long, Siobhan. NIGEL ROLFE: Lament, Hot Press, February 20 Luke, Eric. Heart of Darkness, The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, February 20, b&w ill. Rolfe, Nigel. The Wind Blows Low: A Project Page, Artforum, New York, NY, May, p.95 Rolfe, Nigel, with Aidan Dunne. New Work, Circa Magazine, Belfast, Ireland, No. 64, Summer Sparks, Amy. Plumbing Nature, The Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland, OH, April 21, p. 19 Walker, Angela. These roses will grow on you, Warwick Boar, Coventry, England, February 2,
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES, continued
b & w ill. -----. Review of Lament iin Observer, March 7 -----. Choices, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, March 27 -----. Sunday Press, March 7 -----. Dublin Event Guide, March 16, Dublin, Ireland 1993 -----. CMJ, March 12 -----. The Washington Post, March 21, Washington, DC 1992 Aletti, Vince. Voice Choice, The Village Voice, New York, NY, May 20, p. 84 Bourdon, David. Seeing It All, or Six Weeks in Manhattan Galleries, Critic's Diary, Art in America, September, pps. 52, 54, b & w ill. Byrne, Tara. Resonating Art, The Bar, Dublin, Ireland, March 1992, p. 4 Dunne, Aidan. ART: A resonating performance without a performer: That's Rolfe, that was, The Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland, p. 27 Koplos, Janet. Black Market International at The Anchorage, Art in America, New York, NY, January, p. 120 Lee, David. Report: Photography, Arts Review, England, October, p. 477, b & w ill. Walker, Natasha. Gilding the lily, the lotus, the rose, The Guardian, London, England, August 22, p. 26, b & w ill. -----. Bloomin' Marvelous, Herald and Post, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 15, b & w ill. -----. The Flowers of Romance, The List, Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, October 22, p. 9, b & w ill. -----. RESONATOR: Nigel Rolfe at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Phoenix, June 3 -----. Rolfe Shows His Hand, Arts & Entertainment, Irish Echo, New York, NY, May 6-12, Vol. LXV, No.19, p. 24, b & w ill. -----. HEART OF DARKNESS, The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, February 20, b & w ill. 1991 Fowler, Joan. Inheritance and transformation, Circa Magazine, Belfast, Ireland, Sept/Oct, pps. 32-35 Gibbons, Luke. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artforum International, September Kimmelman, Michael. On Avoiding the White-Box Syndrome, The New York Times, Sunday, August 18, pps. H31 & 32 Schneider, Von Bruno F. Drei Austellungen zu Art Cologne, Kolner Rundchau, November 16 Suzanski, Edward. Performance artist in photographs, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 15 -----. Portfolio, Architecture Painting Sculpture & Time-based Media in Ireland, Vol. 1, Gandon Editions -----. The Fifth Province - Some Contemporary Art From Ireland, Edmonton Art Gallery, September -----. Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki, Finland, September 7 1990 Brody, Jackie. Review, Print Collectors Newsletter, Vol. XXI, No. 5, Nov./Dec Cork, Richard. House Traps, The Listener, May Hemp, Brent. Korpereinstatz, Kunst Magazin, Cologne, Germany, August, p. 78 Kuspit, Donald. Review, Artforum International, October McLennan, Alastair. Performance, Circa Magazine, 50th issue, Belfast, Ireland Plagens, Peter. Invention Is The Mother of . . ., Newsweek, October 1989 -----. Truly is This the Land of Milk and Honey, review, Newsweek -----. Truly is This the Land of Milk and Honey, review, Spectator -----. Live Art Now, (booklet) Arts Council of Great Britain 1988 Guiton, Marjorie Althorpe. Edge '88, catalogue -----. Gun Law, Circa Magazine, Belfast, Ireland -----. High Performance Statement on the future, Los Angeles, CA 1987 -----. BLITZ Exposure, photographs from Blitz Magazine, 1980 – 87 Pendergast, Mark. Irish Rock: Roots, Personalities, Directions
SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES, continued
1986 Furlong, Bill.; Declan McGonagle; John Hutchinson; and Nigel Rolfe. Sculptures in Motion, Retrospective catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Dixon, Andrew Graham. The Art of the Newcastle Rope Trick, The Times, London England, March 2 -----. Island Stories, reviews, National Press in Ireland and England 1985-86 Brooks, Jeffrey. The Rope, Aspects Magazine, Newcastle, England, Winter 1985 Lippard, Lucy R. Turns of Mind: Some New Irish Art, Crossroads -----. Poetry ABC, Bentelli, Zurich, Switzerland 1984 Koplos, Janet. Nigel Rolfe at Jayne H. Baum, Art in America, New York, NY, Vol.82, No.6, p.103, b & w ill. McHugh, Kevin. Pain and Suffering, Arts & Entertainment, The Irish Echo, Vol. LXVII, No.4, January 19-25, p.24 -----. Five Years Performance Art in Lyon, Hubert Besacier, Lyon, France Burnham, Linda. Landscape, Nigel Rolfe - An Englishman Searches Ireland's Landscape, Inventing an Archaeology, High Performance Magazine, Los Angeles, CA, issue #25 Howe, Desson. No Pain, No Fame, Washington Post, Washington, DC, April 27 Hutchinson, John. Review, Dublin Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, August 23. James, David. Pretexts of History, Artweek, Issue 13, San Francisco, CA. Hill, Peter. Local Heroes, Artscribe, London, England, April 1983-84-----. Doc (K)s, No. 60, Winter, Paris, France 1983 Lippard, Lucy. Overlay, Pantheon Press, New York, NY Hill, Peter. Nigel Rolfe (interview) Aspects Magazine, Newcastle, England, Summer McCrum, Sean. Nigel Rolfe - Jungle, CIRCA Magazine, Belfast, Ireland, March/April McCrum, Sean. Irish Open Rolfe Classic, The Tribune, Dublin, Ireland, Sunday, August 28 -----. Review, Sud-Ouest, Bordeaux, France, November 16 -----. Interview with Eve Downey and Ciaran Taylor, National College of Art, Dublin College Magazine, Dublin, Ireland, Summer 1982 Knowles, Roderic. Contemporary Irish Art, Wolfhound Press, Ireland Woodworth, Paddy. But Is It Art? Irish Times, June 10 1981 -----. D'Ars, No. 95, Italy, April 1980 Packer, Will.iam. Paris: Biennale des Jeunes, Financial Times, September 30 1981 Red Wedge, a documentary publication of the Red Wedge work, ACME Gallery, London,1978 Bridge, a documentary publication of the Bridgework, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland -----. Salon, No. 9, March, Cologne, Germany -----. D'Ars, No. 95, April, Italy -----. Uusi Suomi, Helsinki, Finland, September 7 -----. My Favorite Thing, The Business Post, Dublin, Ireland, Sunday, August 11 -----. Dui l '91, Ireland's Modern Art Annual, Vol. 1 -----. Hande voll Blut, Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, December 13 1979 Walker, Dorothy. Installations and Performances in Ireland, Flash Art, Milan, Italy, August 28 Schwarzbauer, Georg. Kunstforum, Issue #32, February, Germany.