Directions Out at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin,
Ireland.
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March-2 May 1987
Victor
Sloan The Walk, the Platform and the Field, 1985
Work by artists from Northern Ireland is seen
sporadically in Dublin in both group exhibitions and one man shows.
Directions Out aims, for the first time, to present a focus
on work produced there specifically in the period since 1969.
In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Brian
McAvera argues that seventeen years of what is “quaintly” called
“The Troubles” has ensured that the life experience of artists in
the North, especially of those generations whose formative years
coincide with the post-1969 period, is markedly different from their
Southern confreres.
Much contemporary Northern art absorbs this
experience, almost by osmosis. Artists create a layered but oblique
response to political, social and religious concerns. They eschew
the simplicities of media reportage, ignore the black and white of
agit prop and seek to reflect - and reflect on - the Northern
experience.
This exhibition aims to explore that response by
focusing on work in a variety of media-painting, sculpture,
photography, print-and includes Diamuid Delargy, Fergus Delargy,
Willie Doherty, Graham Gingles, Gerry Gleason, John Kindness, Colin
McGookin, Liam Magee, Locky Morris, Dermot Seymour, Victor Sloan,
Chris Wilson.
The exhibition is not synoptic, though the essay by
Brian McAvera seeks to place these artists within a broad context of
current Northern work.
The presentation of this exhibition in Dublin has
been assisted by the British Council.
The Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College, Dublin 2I, Ireland
( t ) + 353 1 608 1116
( f ) + 353 1 670 8330
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dhgallery@tcd.ie
The Arts Council supports the Douglas Hyde Gallery
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