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Golden Thread Gallery: 13 Roland Gardens : Susan MacWilliam - 5 Mar 2009 to 14 Mar 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Susan MacWilliam
2007, DVD, Colour, Stereo, 22mins 30secs |
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13 Roland Gardens Susan MacWilliam Opening Thursday 5th March 2009 Exhibition opens 6pm - 9pm and runs until Saturday 14th March 2009 13 Roland Gardens opens at the Golden Thread Gallery's Project Space on the 5th of March 2009. Following MacWilliam's recent selection to represent Northern Ireland in the 2009 Venice Biennale, the Golden Thread Gallery is pleased to host this intriguing exhibition of work by one of Northern Irelands best known artists. On October 7th 1930, at his National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Harry Price held a s�ance with Eileen Garrett. Price hoped to make contact with the deceased Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Instead Flight Lieutenant Irwin of the R101 'came through'. The R101 had crashed in flames on October 5 th 1930 near Beauvais, France on its maiden overseas flight to India. During the s�ance Irwin revealed technical and mechanical information about the crash that Garrett could not have known. This s�ance was to become infamous as the 'R101 s�ance'. In 13 Roland Gardens Eileen Garrett's daughter Eileen Coly talks about Garrett's R101 s�ance and living above the Harry Price Laboratory at 13 Roland Gardens, London. The Irish trance medium Eileen Garrett (1893-1970) founded the publishing house Creative Age Press in 1941 and the Parapsychology Foundation in 1951 (both in New York). 13 Roland Gardens was first screened in Seeing is Believing at the Photographers' Gallery, London in 2007 where it was exhibited alongside archival photographs of mediumistic phenomena from the collection of the psychical researcher Harry Price, Senate House, University of London. 13 Roland Gardens is accompanied by a text by Dr.Slavka Sverakova. Open Tuesday - Friday 10.30am - 5.30pm Saturday 1pm - 4pm Additional Information Susan MacWilliam's practice explores the world of the paranormal, and the tradition of psychical research. The scope of her work is wide, encompassing studies of particular historical cases of paranormal phenomena- including accounts of materialisation mediums and clairvoyants, x-ray vision, optograms and dermo-optical perception- and is realized in the form of video, photography and installation works. Her approach is archive-based and she has worked closely with prominent parapsychologists including Dr William G Roll, Dr Stanley Krippner and Dr Rex Stanford and also with psychical research institutions, including the Parapsychology Foundation, New York, the American Society for Psychical Research and the Dermo Optical Laboratory of Madame Yvonne Duplessis, Paris. In 2008 she completed a residency in Winnipeg where she researched the Thomas Glendenning Hamilton Spirit Photograph Collection housed at the University of Manitoba Archives . Susan MacWilliam has been selected to represent Northern Ireland, with a solo exhibition, at the Venice Biennale of Art 2009. MacWilliam has exhibited video and installation works in Ireland and internationally for over 15 years, including solo shows at Jack The Pelican Presents, New York and Gimpel Fils, London (2008). In 2007 she exhibited in �Seeing Is Believing� at the Photographers� Gallery, London. MacWilliam was awarded a place on the PS1 International Studio Programme, New York in 1999 and has worked on art residencies in Dublin, Trinidad, Slovenia, America and Canada. She was shortlisted for the 1999 Irish Museum of Modern Art/Glen Dimplex Award and was awarded the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Perspective 2003 Award. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Her video works (1998-2007) are housed in the Drama and Literature Section of the British Library�s Sound Archive. She is featured in Art Review�s Future Greats, Issue 30, March 2009. Upcoming Dates @ Golden Thread Gallery North Down Art Of Regeneration Project Space 19th - 28th March 2009 Exhibition Opens 6pm - 8pm. _______________________________________________ The Munter Hitch Gallery 1 Dan Shipsides Gallery 2 Seamus Harahan 20th March 2009 - 18th April 2009 Exhibition Opens 6pm - 8pm |
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