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Update:some more tickets have been released for th

Update:some more tickets have been released for this already SOLD OUT talk. It is FREE to attend but you have to book.

Starts 5pm on Thursday the 1st of December. You will also have the chance to buy the Catalogue ( hot from the printers press) that was produced to mark my exhibition HERE currently running @bx_gallery until Dec 23rd. I’ll be posting more about the catalogue once I have one in my hand. 🙏 Looking forward to meeting and talking with @jan.mccullough and @chickeybelfast 👏👏

My parents at a wedding in the 1990’s. Love that

My parents at a wedding in the 1990’s. Love that the presence of the photographer is marked by a finger in front of the lens. Dad is staring straight at it😄

#breakingthethirdwall
#photographyatitsbest📷

“Breaking the third wall refers to when a character addresses the medium in which they are situated”

#10photos #9photos(cantcount) #1day #grangegormanc

#10photos #9photos(cantcount) #1day #grangegormancampus #dublincitycentre #donabatebeach #bangorcountydown

Thanks to the Irish Times for this coverage. Have

Thanks to the Irish Times for this coverage. Have a read to find out more about the historical context and background to the work in my current show @bx_gallery which as a site has its own links to historical, radical Belfast-link in bio- 👍

Looking forward to talking all things archives wit

Looking forward to talking all things archives with @jan.mccullough and @chickeybelfast , next Thursday evening, 1st of December @bx_gallery Starting at 5 o’clock sharp. It’s free but booking is required. Link to eventbrite in my stories or on BX website 👏✔️ See you there. 👍

#christmasmarketshadows #thattimeofyearalready🎄

#christmasmarketshadows #thattimeofyearalready🎄🎅 😱

Thanks to @joannaicka for the shout out on twitter

Thanks to @joannaicka for the shout out on twitter. My show is still running until Dec 23rd @bx_gallery for those who’d like to catch it. A one time only experience in this special space/place 🤗 @drawingprojectsuk. I’ll definitely be going to see Hold On Tight when I’m over in Belfast next week @goldenthread_gallery Looks amazing 👏

#firstfrost #fresh #breatheitin #marker #steamstre

#firstfrost #fresh #breatheitin #marker #steamstream

From the archive of Ernest Scott, studio photograp

From the archive of Ernest Scott, studio photographer in Armagh, Northern Ireland from 1952-1970. Ernest took over 300 thousand photos during those years. His archive is held at Armagh County Museum.

Unknown boy, 1952

#treepicture #fromabovewithlove

#treepicture #fromabovewithlove

#bath #thisevening #brakeslights #carwindow

#bath #thisevening #brakeslights #carwindow

#weekendends #bigbirdoverhead

#weekendends #bigbirdoverhead

Inspirational new work by William Kentridge downst

Inspirational new work by William Kentridge downstairs at the Goodman Gallery

“The exhibition premieres the artist’s latest major work, an immersive five-channel projection made in response to Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10. The installation lends the exhibition its evocative title – referencing utopia, our wish for it and the shadow it always casts.

The centrepiece of the exhibition has its origins in a commission by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, leading to a single-channel live orchestral performance in Lucerne, Pompeii and Johannesburg earlier this year.

Oh To Believe in Another World expands on decades of critical engagement with life and culture under the Soviet Union, explored in Kentridge’s I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008) and The Nose (2010), based on the absurdist opera of the same name directed by Shostakovich in the 1920s, which was suppressed shortly after opening.”

One pamphlet from the display in my show currently

One pamphlet from the display in my show currently running at Belfast Exposed Gallery. This work is called ‘From My Father’s Library’ which is just that -a selection of political and historical pamphlets from my father’s book shelves which demonstrate his interest in the history of radical politics and his commitment to working in the community as a teacher and activist.

Coincidences: Belfast Exposed Gallery is situated on Donegall Street. In the late 1700’s, with his younger sister Mary Ann McCracken, Henry Joy attended David Manson's school in the same Donegall Street. Quote:”Manson, whose ambition was to banish "drudgery and fear" from children's education, may have been a very considerable influence on the McCracken children.”

Notes:
Henry Joy McCracken (31 August 1767 – 17 July 1798) a leading member of the Society of the United Irishmen and a commander of their forces in the field in the Rebellion of 1798. In pursuit of an independent and democratic Ireland, he sought to ally the disaffected Presbyterians organised in the Society with the Catholic Defenders, and in 1798 to lead their combined forces in Antrim against the British Crown. Following the defeat and dispersal of the rebels under his command, McCracken was court-martialled and executed in Belfast.

Mary Ann McCracken (8 July 1770 – 26 July 1866) was a supporter of her older brother and social activist and campaigner in her own right whose extensive correspondence is cited as an important chronicle of her times. She advocated for women; organising for relief and education for the poor; and, in a town like Belfast that was heavily engaged in trans-Atlantic trade, she had a lifelong commitment to the abolition of slavery.

Notes on this pamphlet:

" Henry Joy McCracken and His Times " by Fred Heatley - issued by Belfast Wolfe Tone Society - to coincide with Henry Joy McCracken Bi-Centenary 1967 - Printed by IRISH NEWS LIMITED., 113-117 Donegall Street, Belfast, 1. Soft cover , 61 pages, staple bound (staples rusted ) - illustrated with 3 full-page plates , one of Henry Joy. @bx_gallery

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#adaytoremember🌈 #amazingnature #spectacularsig

#adaytoremember🌈 #amazingnature #spectacularsights

Question to fellow artists/ curators this morning:

Question to fellow artists/ curators this morning: Is a ‘career artist’ like a ‘career politician’? If so, there are not many good examples of career politicians around so I don’t want to use the description. But why do artists feel the need to describe themselves on their Cv’s as such these days? Maybe I’m old fashioned or is it the corporate nature of the description that doesn’t appeal? In saying that I can also see it from another point of view which is to say ‘ I do this work and I should be paid for the work I do’. If this is part of the reason then I can see why artists want to use it. It makes it clear that you do not live on thin air, nor have a trust fund or another job to support yourself and like all those who are paid employees in the art institutions you deserve a living wage. But what about all the other artists who do have another job to put food on their table? Will they be seen by galleries and curators as as not ‘proper’ artists? 🤔

#Regram @sladeschool #alumna @bx_gallery @drawingp

#Regram @sladeschool #alumna @bx_gallery @drawingprojectsuk @belfast_int_arts_fest

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