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Alastair MacLennan – a visit to his studio at Noon of 10th April 2018
On his kind invitation we met in front of the Flax Art. The lift was made dysfunctional by someone not heading the printed advice to close both gates when leaving. MacLennan’s studio has almost Corbusier inspired ribbon windows on two … Continue reading
Sinead McKeever, Antenna, Millennium Court Art Centre, Portadown, Feb 2 -March28, 2018
The transformatory power of McKeever’s exhibition is apparent when the space is seen without her installation, Antenna, during an earlier exhibition. McKeever’s installation effortlessly seduces the useful rational construction to abandon its mathematical precision and to join in a play. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anish Kapoor, Aristotle, Brian McAvera, David Smith, James Turrell
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STUART CALVIN, The Earthly and the Uncharted, 25 Jan – 24 Feb 2018, Ulster University Art Gallery, Belfast
David Haughey accompanied the installation with a breathtakingly beautiful essay extracting deep understanding of human condition from materials and hues while mapping the roots in ancient philosophy. Applied to current EU strategies with migrating people it dips this art near … Continue reading
Listening to DANNY McCARTHY: Rauschenberg Scores
I have a memory (drowned in the decades of forgetting) of an summer evening open air piano concert at the Maeght Foundation near Saint-Paul de Vence: the pianist played the same score marks vertically, horizontally, clockwise, anti-clockwise, on a diagonal…. … Continue reading
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Tagged Captiva Florida, CD, Danny McCarthy, prints, Rauschenberg's Foundation
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Colin McGookin: The Joy of Eastern Compositions, October – November 2017, EastSide Gallery, Belfast
Curated by ArtisAnn commercial gallery 18 acrylic paintings on either paper, board, fabric, or linen and one oil painting on board, in a style McGookin has preferred since his wife taught him to paint on silk, formed The Joy of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Kiefer, AR Penck, banners, H.Bosch, idiom, J Derrida, Oliver Sachs, panel paintings
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Jayne Cherry at Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, 5 August – 27 September 2017
As many of my readers, I have not seen this exhibition. Jayne Cherry kindly sent me a link to the video made with sensitivity to mute poetry by Stu Calvin. She also emailed two related still images that in … Continue reading
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Keith Sheppard, Reflections of Nebulae 2, Arts and Disability Forum Gallery, 03.08 – 08/09 2017
Interpretations of Sunrise from Gliese 581c? Indeed that is what the artist named it as. “How might a sunrise appear on Gliese 581c? Gliese 581c is the most Earth-like planet yet discovered and lies a mere 20 light-years distant. Although … Continue reading
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Sinead McKeever: Tipping Point, QSS Gallery, Belfast
Sinead McKeever does not do compromises. Her installation at the Queen Street Studios Gallery title CIRCUIT (2016) echoed several of the perceptual tasks examined since 1960s by Michelangelo Pistoletto.
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Part 4:Cumulator 7, The Point, Groomsport, 7th July 2016: James King
James King James King is the origin of the Cumulator series. This time he emailed me the following text, to which I added Jordan Hutchings’s photography: Cumulator 7 notes. July 7 th. 7.30pm – 2.30pm. McCormick’s Point, Groomsport, Bangor, … Continue reading
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Part 2:CUMULATOR 7 on 7th July 2016 at The Point. Groomsport,NI, UK (Siobhan Mullen Wolfe)
Siobhan Mullen Wolfe Siobhan Mullan emailed me the following: Cumulator 7 Performance – 7 Artists Time: 7 hours Materials :Boiler suit, hand-crafted chair, potato peeler, aluminium bucket filled with raw coal and remains of burnt ash of financial … Continue reading
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Angela Hackett – 2015
My visit to her studio on Saturday 12th September resulted in her invitation to respond to her two paintings, Tropical Ravine and Studio Interior. On my PC screen the tactile messages of air temperature are absent, forever broadcasting how the … Continue reading
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Catherine Keenan, Seeing Stripes, Belfast Print Workshop, April 2 – May 2 2015
She spent one month working on a series of screenprints as an artist in residence at BPW.
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RONNIE HUGHES, Supernumerary at Fenderesky, Belfast February 2015
This is a new space for art exhibitions in Belfast. The highly regarded gallery owner, art dealer, curator, writer, publisher and philosopher, Jamshid Mirfenderesky found his fifth abode reminiscent of the one he had at the Upper Crescent … Continue reading
PETER RICHARDS: Intuitive Actions, Common Attributes and Isolated Incidents, 13 September – 25 October, 2014, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown
Gallery TWO is a common display of islands of meaning in a space, flat images on a shelve or directly on the wall, 3D on a pedestal or trolley. Each is given approaching and leaving viewing space … Continue reading
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Tagged Conceptual art, drawing, duration, eternal recurrence, H Marcuse, installation, Paul Sharits, performance, pinhole camera, Ryoji Ikeda, video, Vito Acconci
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On the other side of Les Fleurs du Mal, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 21 November – 21 December 2013
Twenty One artists, responded to the invitation issued by the art dealer extraordinaire Jamshid Mirfenderesky to submit work related to the title of the most famous collection of poems, written in the 19th C. Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleur du … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, Charles Baudelaire, Fenderesky gallery, flowers, G. Gingles, Jennifer Trouton, John Brown, landscape, Les Fleurs du Mal, Michael B Mazur, monotype, Paddy McCann, painting, Pat Harris, sculpture, Sharon Kelly, Sophie Aghajanian, still life, Zoe Murdoch
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Susan MacWilliam, 13 Roland Gardens, DVD 22 minutes 30secs, 2007
Recently, Eileen Coly has died. My essay has been distributed to the visitors of Golden Thread Gallery at the occasion of the video 13 Roland Gardens being exhibited in February 2009. It is re-published here in memory of Susan’s Mrs C. … Continue reading
Household 2013, Belfast, Ormeau Rd area
The above team of curators did once more a sterling job, with support from Tom Hughes and Faye Hobson, as well as numerous volunteers and artists. After the success of last year Household they again brought energy, inspiration and good … Continue reading
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Tagged Alissa Kleist, Ciara Hickey, Deirdre McKenna, Eoin Dara, Gerard Carson, Household, Kim McAleese, Ruaidhri Lennon
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Cathy Droney
Cathy Droney: Frenzy, Platform, Belfast, May 2013 Katrín Inga Jónsdóttir Hjördísardóttir Hirt (Living Art Museum, Nýló) hand-made several hundred sculptures in the form of a victory cup, which she calls Gratitude Sculptures. In a letter to invited participants she wrote … Continue reading
Paddy McCann at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, March – April 2013. Part 2 / 3: Paddy Donnelly interview
Paddy McCann interviewed by Paddy Donnelly, December 2012 Q: People who know your early work tend to refer, in particular, to a large painting of a waste container or skip. Sadly, that painting is now lost. But when first shown, … Continue reading
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Paddy McCann at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, March – April 2013
Slavka Sverakova: Paddy McCann (catalogue essay) Paddy McCann is known as a printmaker and sculptor, but pre-eminently as a painter. He is passionate about art, political in his choice of themes, and poetic even in translating uncomfortable memories into the … Continue reading
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Mark McGreevy
Slavka Sverakova interviews Mark McGreevy by e-mail (2008 / 2009) SS:Your paintings are a web of memories, associations and signs. It is worth repeating what you said once about the rainbow motif. Mark McGreevy: 20000 Suckas in the bottom of the nugget, … Continue reading
Stephen Conlin
Slavka Sverakova interviews Stephen Conlin by e-mail SS: Born in Armagh, educated in Belfast – what higher degrees have you graduated from? SC: Born in Co Armagh, graduated in Classics from Trinity College Dublin, and then took the Advanced Diploma at … Continue reading
Dermot Seymour
Dermot Seymour: Des Bêtes et des Hommes 1st publ. on Huma3.com on April 4, 2012 A retrospective of Seymour’s paintings has opened on 15th December 2011 at the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, titled Fish,Flesh and Fowl. It is destined to … Continue reading
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Ambulatorio 2012
I copied this from livinggallery.info, where it appeared last year: Ambulatorio, 9th July 2012, Belfast, an installation for three weeks.Slavka Sverakova, 2012-08-04 Three days after the launch of the installation of glass grid with aerial photographs of Belfast, rioting groups and … Continue reading
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Angelo Garoglio
Born 1951 in Milan, Garoglio lives in Turin, where he met and collaborated with Mutus Liber. In 1986, Brian Kennedy invited them all to Northern Ireland and Danny McCarthy arranged for their work to be seen in Cork. Garoglio contributed … Continue reading
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