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Golden Thread Gallery: GALLERY 1 & 2 : Anxious Landscapes - Paul Seawright | PROJECT SPACE : Christmas Project - 29 Nov 2008 to 10 Jan 2009 Current Exhibition |
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GALLERY 1 & 2 Anxious Landscape � Selected Works, Paul Seawright 29th November 08 - 10th January 09 Anxious Landscape - selected works from the 1980�s & 1990�s, is an exhibition reflecting on work by Paul Seawright with a particular focus on his exploration of aspects of the political situation in the North of Ireland. The Golden Thread Gallery views Anxious Landscape as making a significant contribution to the gallery�s exhibition programme, which includes a comprehensive investigation into the construction of representations of post-war Northern Ireland. The exhibition examines a sense of how Seawright has responded to the heavily mediated story of �The Troubles� by producing photographic investigations that have contributed alternative interpretations to the depictions of Northern Ireland in the national and international newspapers. The exhibition offers the viewer an opportunity to reflect on the journey taken by Seawright in the 1980�s & 1990�s �through the physical landscape of his native city, mapping out the cultural, political and social divides that exist in the mind of its inhabitants.� # Anxious Landscape features a broad selection of his works will be shown, including his earliest work, Sectarian Murder, recently exhibited at Tate Britain. Paul Seawright was born in Belfast in1965. His photographs have been exhibited worldwide and are held many museum collections including The Tate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, International Centre of Photography New York and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Known best for his alternative visual analysis of locations and subjects dominated by mainstream media, Seawright�s works have looked at the RUC, sectarianism, the Orange Order, protestant bonfires, defensive architecture, peace lines and the psychology of urban space in ways that are unfamiliar. His photographs are devoid of obvious drama, but loaded with implicit tension. In 2002 he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum London to respond to the war in Afghanistan and his photographs of battle-sites and minefields have subsequently been exhibited worldwide. The National Media Museum in Bradford recently exhibited a survey of his work from the past twenty years, curated by the FotoMuseum Antwerp, Belgium. In 2003 Seawright represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art and in 1997 won the Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Prize. He is currently Professor of Photography at the University of Ulster. PROJECT SPACE Christmas Project Curated by Sarah Mc Avera 4th - 18th December 2008 JANUARY Listings details: PROJECT SPACE Locus of Control Kristoff Gillen & Acitore Artezione 13th -23rd January 2009 Open: Tuesdays to Fridays - 10.30am to 5.30pm Saturdays - 1pm - 4pm Golden Thread Gallery, 84-94 Great Patrick Street, Belfast BT1 2LU Tel: 028 90330920 Email: info @ gtgallery.fsnet.co.uk Web: www.gtgallery.org.uk |
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