Tag Archives: Belfast

Listening Wall at QSS, Belfast

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Slavka Sverakova

Iris Garrelfs contribution to the current Sonorities Festival in Belfast consists of 30 A4 sheets with printed words displayed in groups on the walls of the first room of the QSS gallery. (irisgarrelfs.com/listening – wall) The second room houses a video, hand … Continue reading →

Posted in essay | Tagged Belfast, Brazier Park, Do It, John Cage, listening, Queen Street Studios Gallery, sound, text scores cards, verbal instructions | 2 Comments

SHE DEVIL

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Slavka Sverakova

SHE DEVIL in BELFAST, Golden Thread Gallery, 17/12/2015 – 6/2/2016 I have not heard of the Italian architect who created the SHE DEVIL project. On her website (www.studiostefaniamiscetti.com) she offers impressive list of artists who responded to her invitation. It … Continue reading →

Posted in article, essay, review | Tagged Belfast, Daphne Wright, Frances Hegarty, Golden Thread Gallery, Isobel Nolan, Jeanne Susplugas, Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Kate Gilmore, Kelly Dobson, Klara Liden, Luana Perilli, Malak Helmy, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Peter Richards, Rona Yefman, She Devil, Sinead O'Donnell, Stefania Miscetti, Tamara Moyzes, Tanja Schlander, video, Vivienne Dick | Leave a comment

Susan Connolly, Something about Some Things to do With Paint

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Hugh Mulholland at MAC, Belfast, 9May – 22 June 2014 Great art and mediocrity can get confused, even by experts. But that’s why we need to see, and read, as much as we can. The more we’re exposed … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Analia Saban, Angela de la Cruz, Belfast, Dante Alighieri, Declan Long, Hugh Mulholland, Iris Murdoch, Itay Ohaly, John Lilley Gallery London, Marsyas, Simon Mills, The MAC, Tiziano Vecellio | Leave a comment

Angela Halliday, Topographies: Smithfield, Belfast, 2013

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

This archival image from 2011 presents the new Smithfield Market replacing the one the perished in the fire during the so called Troubles. The disappeared one is still cherished in a charming web of stories, histories and tales, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged ACNI, Belfast, Colin Graham, digital art, Dr Aisling O'Beirn, Dr Allan Hughes, Dr Angela Halliday, Fiona Larkin, Julie McGowen Phil Hession, Michael Hanna, Queen Street Studios, site specific, Smithfield Market, Studios.video | Leave a comment

On the other side of Les Fleurs du Mal, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 21 November – 21 December 2013

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Slavka Sverakova

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | 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 | Leave a comment

Distributed through Space and Time, Golden Thread gallery, Belfast, December 5 2013 – January 19 2014

Posted on December 12, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Sarah McAvera the exhibition takes its title from one line in Canto 1 of Pale Fire(1962) by V Nabokov. The curator limited the number of artists to three, possibly in relation to the small size of the Project … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Belfast, Christopher Campbell, Deirdre McKenna, fiction, Golden Thread Gallery, Max Ernst, poioumenon, Sarah McAvera, V Nabokov, Zoe Murdoch | Leave a comment

Susan MacWilliam, 13 Roland Gardens, DVD 22 minutes 30secs, 2007

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Belfast, Bill Roll, crash of R 101 airship, Eileen Coly, Eileen Garrett, Golden Thread Gallery, Lisette Coly, spiritual medium, Stanley Krippner, video | Leave a comment

TONY HILL, New Works at Fenderesky, Belfast, October 17 – November 16, 2013

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

This Mondrian is in a private collection, thus it is very unlikely that Hill saw it while he formulated his idea of visual art. I have included it to provide evidence for an aesthetic order many artists in Europe, two … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Belfast, Dan Flavin, De Stijl, Donald Judd, Fenderesky, Frank Stella, ladder, minimalism, Orphism, sculpture, Tony Hill | Leave a comment

Moments of Inception, 17 Oct – 16 Nov, 2013, Queen Street Studios and Gallery, Belfast

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Images courtesy Tony Corey 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in article, review | Tagged A C Danto, Alacoque Davey, Angela Hackett, Ashley Holmes, Belfast, Catherine Davison, Christoff Gillen, Clement McAleer, Colm Clarke, David Turner, Dorothy Hunter, Dougal McKenzie, Eoin Dara, Gail Ritchie, Gerry Devlin, Grace McMurray, Imperial War Museum London, Jennifer Trouton, Majella Clancy, QSS, Sally Young, Sinead McKeever, Susan McKeever, Terry McAllister, Zoe Murdoch | Leave a comment

A SUBTLE MATTER at Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 3 – 25 October 2013

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by Amy Brooks it has her aesthetic sensitivities all over, with the exception of a rather massive box housing Emmanuelle Negre’s fantasy in light. The above image indicates

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Amy Brooks, Belfast, Catalyst Arts, Dorothy Cross, Emanuelle Negre, Jacqueline Holt, Laura McMorrow, Marie Farrington | Leave a comment

John Brown at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, October 17 – November 16, 2013

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Gallery Two has an inbuilt corner, on each side of which was one image of an open book. In this photograph they are next to each other, the larger one on the back wall, the small one as if in … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged Basho Matsuo, Belfast, books, Devetsil, Fenderesky gallery, Gottfried Semper, haiku, Helen Frankenthaler, John Brown, Poetism, Poetry, Time | 1 Comment

Charles Tyrrell at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 12 September – 12 October

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Since 1983 the Fenderesky Gallery developed a strong profile through single, groups, and themed exhibition. Led by a highly educated philosopher with discerning eye and unfailing determination to support all generations of artists, the gallery has presented painting, sculpture, prints … Continue reading →

Posted in essay, review | Tagged aluminium, Belfast, Brian McAvera, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Charles Harrison, Charles Tyrrell, cliffs, E H Gombrich, Fenderesky gallery, Francis Frascina, H Rebay, landscape, PT Murphy, Taylor Galleries, W Kandinsky | Leave a comment

FABRIC, Platform Arts, Belfast, October 3-10, 2013

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Curated by dr Angela Halliday, the dedicated organizer and leader of Digital Arts Studios and talented artist, the exhibition called Fabric brought together work by current artists in residence. Stephen Bleakney installed Music, Technology and Indolence,2013, a sound map of … Continue reading →

Posted in article, essay | Tagged Angela Halliday, Belfast, Berlin Wall, bio-sensory software, Digital Arts Studios, Grace Kim, installation, Janine Davidson, Jiann Hughes, Julie McGowan, Katrina Sheena Smyth. video, Platform Arts, soap bubbles, sound art, Stephen Bleakney | Leave a comment

Colin Davidson, Between The Words

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

The Naughton Gallery at Queens hosted Davidson’s ‘large heads’ from 4th September until 6th October 2013. All exhibits were reproduced in a catalogue with a lively forward by Simon Callow and Conversation with Shan McAnena. Davidson proposed to explore large … Continue reading →

Posted in article, essay, review | Tagged Belfast, drawing, Garry Lightbody, Heraclitos, James Ellis, James Nesbit, likeness, Naughton Gallery, painting, portrait, Queens University, Seamus Heaney, Shan McAnena, Simon Callow | Leave a comment

PSYCHIC DRIVING

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Psychic Driving at the GTG, Belfast, 22 August – 5 October, 2013 Curated in collaboration with Ben Crothers the exhibition presents art by Maurice Doherty, Ciara Finnegan, Kandy Fong, James Franco, Kristin Lucas, Nicolas Provost, Nancy Jo Sales, Peter Spiers … Continue reading →

Posted in article, review | Tagged American Psycho, Belfast, Ben Crothers, Ciara Finnegan, Cruel Intentions, Golden Thread Gallery, James Franco, Jeanne Susplugas, Kandy Fong, Kristin Lucas, Maurice Doherty, moral dilemma, Nancy Jo Sales, Nicolas Provost, Peter Richards, Peter Spiers, Queen's Film Theatre, Secretary, Spring Breakers, The Virgin Suicides | Leave a comment

DRAWING BOX: 2013

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

It has a page on Facebook without which it could not be what it is. Soon after her return from her residency in India, Diane Henshaw together with Andrew Crane, John Crabtree, and Patil Rajendra, started the first Drawing Box … Continue reading →

Posted in essay | Tagged A5 size, Available resources 1991, Belfast, Delawab, drawing, Drawing Box Mumbai, Dublin, Enniskillen, Facebook, Household, Satis House | 6 Comments

Doreen Kennedy

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

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 →

Posted in essay | Tagged Art and Disability Forum, Belfast, Doreen Kennedy, grid, New York, Richard Long, Sonia Falcone, Venice | 1 Comment

It’s Performance at PS squared, Belfast, 13 April 2013

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Hugh O’Donnell presented Erratic Memory, a one hour performance as a discursive platform for a variety of conundrums signalled by the selection of objects, tools. In the company of a table, a hammer, a hand saw, a white fat packet, a vacuum cleaner, … Continue reading →

Posted in article, review | Tagged Belfast, Hugh O'Donnell, Performance Art, PS Squared, Shiro Masuyama | Leave a comment

Paddy McCann at Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, March – April 2013. Part 2 / 3: Paddy Donnelly interview

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Belfast, catalogue, Fenderesky gallery, interview by Paddy Donnelly, painting | Leave a comment

Mary McIntyre

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Slavka Sverakova

Mary McIntyre: A Contemporary Sublime MAC, Belfast, 16 Nov 2012 – 20 Jan 2013

Posted in article, review | Tagged Belfast, Ch Baudelaire, Hugh Mulholland, Josef Sudek, MAC, Mary McIntyre, painting, photography, Sublime | 2 Comments