It is thirty years since the seminal art exhibition, Clean Irish Sea, was displayed at Dublin City Gallery in 1988. This was arguably the first major Irish art show to specifically address ecological issues. This paper focuses on key works by two participating artists, Barrie Cooke (1931-2014) and Gwen O’Dowd (born 1957), placing their contribution to the show both in the context of their environmental interests, but also analysing their work in relation to a particular dilemma facing them as visual artists, but relevant also to cultural communicators in general addressing this vital subject, which is the problem of the aestheticisation of contentious situations. This essay is part of the author’s research project exploring the response of ...
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1967 in Dublin, Ireland, an exhibition opened its doors to a suspecting public. Rose '67 was a work...
Abstract: In this article Ian Joyce and Mathew Staunton explore the interconnected notions of anxiet...
‘Viewfinder’ was a group show exploring the pictorial, rather than the material, dimension of painti...
This conference was the result of an observation: the violent events that occurred between the end o...
"...the first thing an artist does is to try and transcend ideas of identity, rather than to go in t...
International audienceLooking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature a...
The Emerald Isle, for all her lush pastures and forty shades of green, proved relatively impervious ...
International audienceLooking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature a...
The global economic crash of 2008 had a particularly severe impact in Ireland, including on the fund...
In this essay I describe how my engagement with the Burren in the west of Ireland became the foundat...
Presentation given at the invitation of a group of Public Art Officers, as an "Urgent Enquiry" semin...
This article provides a historical overview and reading of seminal Irish film from the perspective o...
This doctoral research addresses the question: How may sculpture be generated as a result of a recip...
This thesis examines a range of poets from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland from the Modernist...
The exhibition of the photographic work entitled, Water: Experience, Recognition, Conversance, is th...
1967 in Dublin, Ireland, an exhibition opened its doors to a suspecting public. Rose '67 was a work...
Abstract: In this article Ian Joyce and Mathew Staunton explore the interconnected notions of anxiet...
‘Viewfinder’ was a group show exploring the pictorial, rather than the material, dimension of painti...