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- Jayne Cherry at Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, 5 August – 27 September 2017
- Graham Gingles: Boxes and Drawings, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast, 7th Sept – 7th October 2017
- Helen Blake, David Crone, Tony Hill: Works on paper, Fenderesky Gallery I, Belfast, Sept 7 – Oct 7, 2017
- ALISTAIR WILSON: Signs and ciphers, GTG Belfast, 3 August – 19th September 2017
- Unafraid Yellow (August 4 -31) and Unafraid Blue (September 8-28) at QSS, Belfast, 2017
- CAPTURED: Rich, Rugged and Fresh, Goose Lane Gallery, Belfast, 7th – 23rd September 2017
- Part 6 Cumulator 7 – just the rest of images taken by Jordan Hutchings – 7/7/2016
- Keith Sheppard, Reflections of Nebulae 2, Arts and Disability Forum Gallery, 03.08 – 08/09 2017
- Dougal McKenzie: A Dream and an Argument, 30 June – 8 October, 2017, the MAC, Belfast
- Bill Saunders: Side Steps These Ferried Measures Rise, 30 June – 24 September 2017, MAC, Belfast
- Fine Art at 2017 Annual Degree shows, University of Ulster Belfast, 2 – 10 June
- Diarmuid Delargy, Monotypes, 15 June- 28 July, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
- Helen Kerr, Batik and Stitch, Oriel Gallery, Antrim, 1/5 – 30/6 2017 (and some others)
- Tony Hill, Selected Works 2017 – 1972, F E McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, 14 April until June 4th, 2017
- Paddy McCann: Eyes to the Wind, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, 11 May – 10 June 2017
- Sharon Kelly at ArtisAnn Gallery Belfast, May 4-27 2017
- Stuart Calvin, Greater than I, May 4 – 18 2017, GTG Belfast
- Unafraid Red, April 6 – May 4, 2017, QSS Belfast
- Bbeyond Symposium Belfast April 3-8 2017
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CAPTURED: Rich, Rugged and Fresh, Goose Lane Gallery, Belfast, 7th – 23rd September 2017
My first visit to this small gallery behind the Tivoli Barber’s shop in North Street happened courtesy the painter Gary Shaw. Until this encounter, I failed to register an art group Belfast Bankers, a name inspired by the group … Continue reading
Fine Art at 2017 Annual Degree shows, University of Ulster Belfast, 2 – 10 June
Fiftysix pages of a newsprint 36 x 29 cm ( a size of not the smallest of canvas) carries the basic administrative information about courses and a campus map. BUT not the layout of the placement. Each cohort of students … Continue reading
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Tagged A.Kiefer, Charlie Scott, Gruenewald, Jan Dibbets, painting, photography, porcelain, R Long, Sam Welsh, Wabi-Sabi, Zara Lyness
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Robert Ellis: Proverbs, 3/3 – 15/4 2017 at Belfast Exposed
The gallery handout makes astonishing statement calling this small exhibition upstairs ” “an ongoing body of work using photographic images and audio recordings that engage with the contemporary landscape of Uganda while exploring its layers of memory.” Whose layers of … Continue reading
Victories are shortlived – Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 23.06.16 – 13.08.16
Milena Bonilla (b 1975, Bogota, Columbia) tracks a “no man land” between Germany and Czech Republic – a residuum of the Cold War between Soviet Union and the West. Where used to be an electric fence for almost half a … Continue reading
Peter FitzGerald, 2016, http://connemara.website
These photographs are deliberately rotated 90°. We see into landscapes. We are less inclined to see the visual structure of what is before us. But we can make things strange in order to see differently – through rotation, for example. Then we see … Continue reading
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Tagged B Brecht, Connemara, Giotto di Bondone, Jan Dibbet, photography, right angle, V.Shklovsky, visual thinking
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Jordan Hutchings, Body of Work, GTG, Belfast, 4-25 June 2015
Curated by the artist Mary Morgan, the exhibition as a whole induced an aesthetic experience by the chosen rhythmical display. I read a wall like a sheet music – imagined intonating it in a- minor after repeating five times the … Continue reading
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Tagged Al MacLennan, Bbeyond, Caroline McCusker, Caroline Pugh, Christoff Gillen, Ciara McKeon, Claudia Kappenberg, Felipe Faundec Fuentes, Fergus Byrne, James King, Jennifer Hanley, Jordan Hutchings, Julie Fiala, Karine Talec, Keike Twisselmann, Kurt Johannessen, Laura Graham, mary morgan, Olivia Hassett, Pavana Reid, Performance Art, photography, Sandra Corrigan Breathnach, Sandra Johnston
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JORDAN HUTCHINGS
A year has passed between the first an the last of Hutchings’s images. Although they protect their individual identity they are peacefully similar, in that they trap light into a kind of trinity: light is the subject, medium and … Continue reading
Angelo Garoglio: Come Elegia, Galleria Don Chisciotte, Torino, 2014
It is about Garoglio’s obsession with sculpture by Medardo Rosso ( 1858-1928), this time mostly with and Garoglio worked with variants of both the above from a private collection in Milan. Please, browse, the book: Come_Elegia for Garoglio’s photographs related to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Garoglio, Enzo Restagno, interpretation, Medardo Rosso, photography, Pino Mantovani, spezattura, Torino
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Palimpsest
This is not reviewing an exhibition. I have been grounded for a while by life away from art, and this essay is not a palimpsest, it has no force to change anything and to show evidence of that change. It … Continue reading
WILDSCAPES
The sound of Campbells work behind the back wall saturated the whole gallery, interfering with the viewing of works by Moffett (on the wall) and Hughes(between the columns) Curated by Phillip McCrilly and supported by Ben Crothers’s substantial informative essay … Continue reading
FIONA LARKIN, BACKSTORY, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 6 December 2012 -17 January 2014
The idea that something commonplace can be transfigured into exceptional has been habitually compulsorily twinned with reason and consent. Both appear at the preparatory stages of this exhibition.
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Tagged book, Catalyst Arts Belfast, essays, installation, J Baudrillard, lake, photography, scarfs, Sophie Calle, translation, video, Vito Acconci
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Mary Morgan and Gerard Carson
Mary Morgan and Gerard Carson: A Passing Breeze, Golden Thread Gallery, 4 – 27 July 2013 In the gallery’s project space, an installation of objects by Gerard Carson and of lens-based images of objects by Mary Morgan has been curated … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Deirdre McKenna, design, Gerard Carson, Golden Thread Gallery, mary morgan, painting, photography, sculpture
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Brian J Morrison
Brian J Morrison: RIPPED, CHISELED, AND ROCK HARD, Platform Arts, Belfast, 2013 I have not seen this exhibition. The following email conversation with the artist supported by photographs by Jason Higgins and the artist, aims to trace the intention and responsiveness to … Continue reading
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Tagged bodybuilding, Brian J Morrison, cut-outs, installation, Jason Higgins, light, photography, Platform Arts Belfast, print
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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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Tagged Andrew Stones, drawing, Esther Ferrer, Frances Hegarty, James Turrell, light, Martina Corry, photography, Susan MacWilliam, video
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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
Mary McIntyre
Mary McIntyre: A Contemporary Sublime MAC, Belfast, 16 Nov 2012 – 20 Jan 2013
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Tagged Belfast, Ch Baudelaire, Hugh Mulholland, Josef Sudek, MAC, Mary McIntyre, painting, photography, Sublime
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