Irish Arts Review

ART comment Author(s): Anthony Haughey, Peter Murray, Brian Fallon, Judy Murphy, Rose Comiskey and Frank McDonald Source: Irish Arts Review (2002-), Vol. 36, No. 3 (AUTUMN (SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2019)), p. 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 Published by: Irish Arts Review Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/45223426 Accessed: 10-06-2021 08:07 UTC

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This content downloaded from 86.59.13.237 on Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:07:41 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms A vision for Irish Photography

a mausoleum but a living archive. This nascent museum should include a large-scale gallery to accommo- date photography in its increasingly expanded field, a contemporary photography collection and artist pro- duction and seminar spaces. The experience of viewing a photo- graph on a screen is akin to viewing

Left to right: Robert Ellis, Žoe Hamill, George Voronov, Róisín White a reproduction of a painting. Walter Benjamin described it as a loss of aura. of Les Rencontres d'Arles, the world's most Viewing a photographic series on the wall of Photolreland Festival directed by Ángel famous and well-funded photography festival. a museum or in the pages of a photo book This Luis PhotolrelandLuis year Gonzalez Gonzalez is the Fernandez. Fernandez. Festival 10th Anniversary During directed Duringthe by thesum- of Ángel sum- the With a budget of €7.5 million, almost sixty is where it all gets resolved, the big idea, an mer the festival launched a temporary Museum per cent of this outlay is recovered by ticket unfolding narrative carefully sequenced by an of Contemporary Photography, located in The sales; 'build it and they will come!'. In a sim- artist. The materiality of a photograph is inte- Printworks in Castle. Young Irish pho- ilar vein, The Tate recently acquired Martin gral to its meaning and use. tographers including, Dor je de Burgh, Cian Parr's extensive photo book collection, ensur- Clearly, there are numerous cultural organ- Burke, Aisling McCoy, Robert Ellis, Sarah ing that it will be one of the most significant isations in Ireland with a major interest in Flynn, Zoe Hamill, Phelim Hoey, Jamin Keogh, photography resources in the world. photography. It is time to work together George Voronov and Róisín White featured Ireland's cultural sector also needs to think and generate a shared vision - only then strongly alongside their international peers. bigger. Irish Photography deserves a ded- will photography in Ireland finally come of This year also marks the 50th anniversary icated contemporary museum space - not age. ■ Anthony Haughey

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Achievement: Interim Accreditation • Allihies Copper Mine Museum • Crawford Art Gallery • Kilmainham Gaol Museum, OPW • The Museum of Free Derry

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of the houses are mostly nineteenth century, and neglect by owners, have left many behind the facades can be found a good deal Years historic and of neglecthistoric ineffective buildings by buildingsowners, heritage in Cork have management, in Cork city left in a many city poor in a poor of older stone and brickwork. state, with nearly one hundred listed as derelict. The situation is similar in the county; a house There have been instances of houses collaps- in Bandon's historic centre collapsed into the ing, and as recently as last June, the rear walls street recently, closing one of the town's roads of several adjoining buildings in North Main for several months. Discussing whether blame Street gave way. The immediate response - can be placed at the door of the local authority, whether the crisis is due to inefficient legis- SANCTIONS SHOULD BE MATCHED lation, or stems from the inaction of house BY INCENTIVES-, AND FINES owners, is not helpful. This is a shared prob- BALANCED WITH ENCOURAGEMENT, lem, one that can only be solved by people North Main Street, Cork GRANTS, AND PROFESSIONAL working together. It has been proposed that lev- ADVICE ON RESTORATION ies on derelict sites be increased and the powers form a focal point for education on urban of local authorities enhanced, but resorting to planning and the built environment. In the that the buildings be demolished - has been a regime of taxation and punishment is not the centre of that beautifully renovated church averted, through it is likely that the only parts most effective way forward; sanctions should was a scale model of the entire city centre. to be saved will be the facades. The danger of be matched by incentives, and fines balanced However, the vision did not last, and for two other structures collapsing is evident to anyone with encouragement, grants, and professional decades St. Peter's Church was used mainly walking through the city today. A key part of advice on restoration. for a variety of art and photography exhibi- Cork's historic centre, North Main Street, with Twenty years ago, the Cork Vision Centre, tions. It is clearly time for local authorities its narrow lanes and regular layout, dates back in St Peter's Church on North Main Street, to wake up and take action, before further to the seventeenth century. While the fronts was established by the then city architect to buildings collapse ■ Peter Murray

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Niamh O'Malley, handle , Tommy Weir, Cillfn, The Hennessy Craig Award, Myra Jago, Now Islands , Melanie le Brocquy, Familiar Gestures, Shea Dalton, Light Drinks,

RHA Gallery / 15 Ely Place, Dublin D02 A213 +353 1 661 2558 / info a rhagallery.ie www.rhagallery.ie Triform,™,

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RHA Annual Exhibition has been a

The good, RHA consensusgood, Annual solid solid and seems and Exhibition well-balanced well-balanced to be that has the beenaffair, affair, 2019 a with less and less of the old corn-and-chaff of former years, and a number of new, or unfa- miliar, faces and names to add novelty and also depth. Inside the past decade or so, the character of this big, at times sprawling event has become what appears, to most unbiased observers, more and more of an open forum Left to right: Brian Palm, Vivienne Roche, Maeve McCarthy and Blaise Smith for individual talents. In a good many respects, it has taken over masterwork, but it does make for genuine drew a good many eyes; Maeve McCarthy's from the old Living Art Exhibition, but with variety and contrast. portrait of Des McMahon proves her ver- a wider brief and, of course, a much big- In such an eclectic set-up, there is an almost satility; Blaise Smith's Near Paulstown fiad ger exhibition space. (The IELA, up to the bewildering variety of individual talents genuine breadth and atmosphere; and Veron- last, was gravely handicapped by its lack of rather than any overall trend. The weak- ica Bolay's spare, ultra-lyrical landscape style a regular, established venue.) And the RHA's est section (by what sounds like a majority continues to strike me as being sadly under- relatively broad, undogmatic selection pol- consensus among the public) is the sculp- rated. And while Brian Palm's small pieces icy has meant that works can by chosen (or ture, which is thin in numbers but also rather involving model boats have always been rejected) on their individual merits, and not thin in talent. Vivienne Roche seemed to intriguing, his painting Precious Milk boldly because they represent this style or that. This me personally the most accomplished figure deals with an anecdotal subject not only with doesn't make the Selection Committee infal- here, and the most versatile. Of the paint- genuine pathos, but also with intelligence and lible, nor does it mean that every exhibit is a ings, David Crone's towering Tree Curtain Style. ■ Brian Fallon

Highlanes Gallery consequence of -a breather of air

^ St Georges Terrace K Co. Carrick-on-ShannonLeitrim Associated events at Graham Crowley: A Love of Many Things www.thedock.ie 21 September - 2 November Sally, Graham Crowley, 20 1 8, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist www.highlanes.ie ^BļBPļWp>'IBlļl(.ll ffe irts development- " Open 6 days, closed Sunday ppess shot taken in ttoe National Sculpture Factory, Cork.

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those who attended the first festival, held in ing the Clifden Arts Festival, the North the school, was poet Seamus Heaney. For ing ConnemaraConnemara the the last Clifden fortnight town town Arts becomes Festival, in September, one oneenormous the enormous North dur- In subsequent years, the festival spread its art gallery. Or as enormous as you can have wings, so that everyone in Connemara could in a place with a population of 1,600 people. enjoy visual art, theatre music and literature Shops, restaurants, pubs, homes; basically, on their own doorstep. anywhere with a free and suitable window is The many exhibitions this year include a enlisted for the Clifden Art Traf, where work 50-year retrospective of local artist and print- Top: Martin Mooney; left: Heidi Wickham; right: Caroline Canning from emerging, usually local, artists hangs maker Margaret Irwin- West at the Festival alongside art from people with international Gallery, Station House Hotel. Also at the gal- the Quaker movement and this area, espe- reputations. The Art Trail is one special fea- lery, artist Bernie Dignam's work explores the cially during the Great Famine. marks and patterns left by turf cutting on the The relationship between landscape and environment. There are powerful landscape buildings is discussed by international archi- IART IN IRELAND'S LONGEST-RUNNING and still-life paintings from award-winning tects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey, IART COMMUNITY IN IRELAND'S TRAIL IS ARTS ARTS ONE LONGEST-RUNNING FESTIVAL SPECIAL FESTIVAL FEATURE artist Martin Mooney at the Whitethorn while O'Donnell's watercolour drawings are Gallery. Sligo artist Heidi Wickham shows exhibited during the festival too. ture in Ireland's longest-running community her charcoal drawings of animals, wild and That relationship between community arts festival which began 42 years ago. domestic, at the Lavelle Art Gallery, while and place is what makes Clifden festival spe- The then vice-principal of a local school, Caroline Canning exhibits paintings at the cial. As the event grows in popularity, the Brendan Flynn, believed that arts and Blaithin de Sachy Art Gallery. organisers' main task is to retain its unique creativity should be the cornerstone of edu- Out the road, Erislannan's Church of Ire- intimacy. That's a challenge but nothing cation, and when a new Community School land hosts an exhibition of Irish Quaker greater than they've dealt with in the past opened in 1977, he took action. Among Art, marking the strong connection between four decades. ■ Judy Murphy

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Solomon fine art, balfe street, dublin 2, d02 t802 tel: +353 1 672 4429 I www.solomonfineart.ie

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of artist studio spaces for the artists. The Merrion Plinth is a new bien- next three years. The Artist Two nial artists.nial new contemporary contemporary The awards Merrion have art Plinthart come award award is on a streamlaunched new launched bien- for in Residence Programme pro- by the Merrion Hotel. The inaugural winner vides three studio spaces, each is Orla Whelan who received €5,000 for her awarded on a six-month basis sculptural piece Chaos Bewitched . The work (running costs included) at made from oil, birch wood and glass is now Wilton Park Studios in Dublin on display at the hotel. Regarding the award, city centre. In association with Whelan commented' 'winning the Merrion i the RHA, the current studio Plinth has generated a lot of attention for my i recipients are Elizabeth Arch- practice. The prize money will be particularly ! bold, Helen Mac Mahon and helpful in the production of new work for my Leah Hewson. planned exhibition next year.' Whelan formed 'The studio itself is in a Leah Hewson Orla Whelan AtHomeStudios six years ago, a collective of great location and is of a great artists who work from home and who meet size, not to mention that it's a fully funded other artists also encourages dialogue. I'm a sociable person and like the company of other like-minded people.' Hewson was I IT'S HAVINGHAVING VERY A COMMUNITY A COMMUNITY DIFFICULT TO OF GET OTHEROF GOODOTHER ARTISTS STUDIO ARTISTS ENCOURAGES SPACEENCOURAGES IN WHICH DIALOGUE' TO WORK.DIALOGUE' one of the eight young painters featured in the Irish Arts Review (see '8 under 40' I AR for peer critique and mutual support. space so I don't have to worry about rent summer 2018). She is currently working on The second initiative is from Ireland's for a while,' said a delighted Hewson. 'It's paintings for the autumn Hennessy Craig largest owner of office buildings, IPUT. They very difficult to get good studio space in Award exhibition where she is one of the have made a significant award in the form which to work. Having a community of short-listed artists. ■ Rose Comiskey

Roseanne Lynch - La trace de l'oubli

Centre Culturel Irlandais, 7 November at 6. 30pm, followed by an open-air concert at 8pm

A pre-opening conversation between the artist and Peggy-Sue > 0 Amison, curator the exhibition, will take place at 5.30pm 1

Experimentation contemplation I and rigour

I Roseanne Lyn eh 's explorations as she ? §• her by ? to the pedagogical • I > 0 1 2 I ? §• ? I I Roseanne Lynch, Untitled [26.3.1], 2019 -... ît ES *•'* . - '-'if. r-H- j g Exhibition runs until 20 December 2019

Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 2pm to 6pm; Wednesday until 8pm Closed: Monday Cìrcadian Rhythms Address: 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris Contemporary art and biological time 2 Aug - 3 Nov 201 9 www.centreculturelirlandais.com

Maarten Baas / David Beattie/ Suki Chan / Tehching Hsieh / Jitish Kallat/ Caoimhe Kilfeather Barbara Knezevic/ Michael Landy / Rivane Neuenschwander/ Michael John Whelan

The Glucksman, University College Cork, Ireland www.glucksman.org GLUCKSMAN 1SS ^ ioHļmss UmmiBH Bauhaus Dessau

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The society, founded by Senator David Preservation Society, marking its 40th Norris, china restorer Desirée Short and The Preservationanniversary anniversary North this Great Society,this year, year,George's marking has has much much its to Street 40thto cel- cel- Harold Clarke, has two principal objectives: ebrate. One of Dublin's finest 18th century the conservation, restoration and preser- streets, and home to the , vation of the buildings and streetscape of it also has the rare distinction of being inhab- North Great George's Street, and the mainte- ited by the many of those early pioneers who nance and improvement of the environment However, there are still drawbacks. A undertook the daunting challenge of rescuing of the street and its surrounding area. developer recently sought outline plan- its grand houses from decades of decay. Current chairman Tom McKeown has ning permission for a five-storey apartment As Camilla McAleese, vice-president of spoken of 'the coincidence that brought block to the rear of one of the houses, on the the Irish Georgian "Society, recently recalled, together a critical mass of like-minded peo- site where a mews house once stood. Dub- lin City Council refused permission on the basis that it would constitute 'over-develop- IIT THOSE EARLY PIONEERS WHO UNDERTOOK THE DAUNTING CHALLENGE OF ment ... which would be incompatible' with

IIT THOSERESCUING RESCUING ALSO EARLY HAS ITS THE PIONEERS GRAND GRAND RARE HOUSESHOUSES DISTINCTION WHO FROMUNDERTOOK FROM DECADESOF DECADES BEING THE INHABITED OF OFDECAY DAUNTING DECAY BY CHALLENGE THE MANY OF OF the established character of the area' and it is now under appeal. these houses were 'designed to impress' - ple who not only restored their own houses With the Loreto nuns planning to dispose and they still do. This is clearly shown in the but also worked so that all the neigh- of the three houses they own on the street, society's commemorative booklet, which fea- bours developed the same attitude. Indeed, attention is now firmly focused on securing tures stories of how individual houses were if they were not fully on board, there was an Architectural Conservation Area desig- restored over time, with charming photo- some respect for what should be done. You nation for the street and its surroundings, to graphs of beautiful rooms full of period will not see any plastic windows on North protect one of Dublin's most important 18th furniture, pictures and objets d'art. Great George's Street.' century quarters. ■ Frank McDonald

John's bookshop www.johnsbookshop.com first solo Open call for artists in the North East Region. Would you like to have your First Solo Exhibition in our gallery in 2 0 2 0 ?

If you aré a recent art graduate or 'artist living in the North East Region and have yet to present your first solo exhibition, we want tohearfromyou! Submissions open 20 September 2019 Deadline January 31 2020 for more details www.droichead.com

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