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Talk 4: Presentations by Richard Mosse and David Farrell

Richard Mosse, David Farrell

Meeting House Square

4th July, 7:00 pm

Image: Pool at Uday’s Palace, Iraq by Richard Mosse.

Join us at the Meeting House Square at 8pm on Sunday the 4th of July, to enjoy a presentation by two great contemporary photographers: Richard Mosse and David Farrell, on their current work and past practice.

This event is open to everyone until the spaces fill up.

Richard Mosse was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1980 and grew up in County Kilkenny. Following a BA in English Literature, Mosse studied at Goldsmiths, London, before earning an MFA from Yale School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Akademie der Kunst, The Aperture Foundation, Barbican Art Gallery, Houston’s Fotofest 2010 Biennial, Musee d’Elysee, Storefront for Art + Architecture, and Tate Modern. It has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Art Review, Frieze and Source. His work has been acquired by the Martin Z Margulies Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and others. He lives in New York City and is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery. Mosse won the Ormeau Baths Gallery Perspective Award in 2005 and was awarded the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship (2008-2010).

Nè vicino Nè lontano. A Lugo - David Farrell
Nè vicino Nè lontano. A Lugo by David Farrell.

David Farrell was born in Dublin (1961), read Chemistry at UCD graduating with a Ph.D. in 1987. Currently working as a lecturer in photography in IADT-Dun Laoghaire. He has worked independently and on communion projects with Gogo della Luna (Gudòk). Received the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2001 for Innocent Landscapes and in 2004 participated in the European Eyes on Japan project. Crow, his collaborative multimedia film with composer Benjamin Dwyer, was premiered during the Composers Choice Festival at the National Concert Hall Dublin in 2005. He has exhibited internationally including Houston FotoFest 2006, on three occasions at the Festival Internazionale di Fotografia, Rome and more recently in Pinyang Festival of Photography in China in 2008. His second publication, Nè vicino Nè lontano. A Lugo - (Punctum -Autumn 2007) was a result of a residency project curated by Luca Nostri in Lugo in the North of Italy. David Farrell - Elusive Moments a documentary by Donald Taylor Black (Poolbeg Productions) was premiered at the Cork Film Festival 2008 and was broadcast on Irish Television as part of The Look of the Irish series on Irish photography. Since September 2008 at www.source.ie/blog he has been documenting his revisits to the sites of Innocent Landscapes and the ongoing renewed searches at some of these locations for those disappeared during the conflict in Northern Ireland.

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