Monthly Archives: June 2013

Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography

Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography, Belfast Exposed, 10 May – 7 July 2013 The exhibition of 200 photographs by 36 photographers in two venues, Belfast Exposed and Metropolitan Arts Centre, has been curated by Karen Downey  to “present photography … Continue reading

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Stuart Cannell

Stuart Cannell: Paradise Lost, 2013, University of Ulster Degree Show, June 2013 While looking at Cannel’s Paradise Lost I asked him whether he knew about the exhibition This is Tomorrow. “Yes, Richard Hamilton had been the early inspiration.” Hamilton claimed … Continue reading

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Mark Francis Fenning

Mark Francis Fenning: Images of Masculinity, Degree show, University of Ulster, Belfast, 2013 This is as big as a bookcase on sale in flat packs at Ikea, where indeed it was purchase to house hundreds of photographic prints , simulating … Continue reading

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Karine Talec

Karine Talec: Drawing In the Light, 2013, University of Ulster Degree shows, Belfast Her gestures as drawings in the air are readily understood. In the above frame  it appears as if she is  responding  to someone in the audience. In … Continue reading

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Doreen Kennedy

Doreen Kennedy: Revisit, ADF Gallery, Belfast, June-July 2013 Sonia Falcone  presents a variation of a grid, I think of as a soft grid.  A grid became an ubiquitous device of the 20th C visual art,  it usually tessellated rectangular elements, like … Continue reading

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