The Thing That Bruises You
*FINAL LIST OF SHORTLISTED PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Aaron Dempsey - Aishling Muller - Aindreas Scholz - Aoife O’Donnell - Brendan Ryan - Calin Ploscar - Catherine O’Gorman - Ciaran Dolan - Clare Lymer - Daniel Graham - Daniel Holfeld - Emma Birkett - Ferdia MagLochlainn – Fergus Jordon – Fred Reilly - Garvan Gallagher - Hazel Fitzpatrick - Jacki Hehir - Jason McGarry - Jill O’Meara - Julie-anne Thorne - Karen Clifford - Laura Curran - Laura McGovern - Laura Pyne - Leah Reynolds - Mandy O’Neill - Margaret Boland - Margaret Brown - Mark Treston- Michael Conlon - Miguel Robaina - Paul Sharp - Ramona Farrelly - Rich Lambe - Rimi Park - Roseanne Lynch - Sarah Martin - Seamus Sullivan - Simon Bates - Steven Nestor - Teresa Martin Varela- Tom Scott- Ulla Schildt - Veronica Vierin
Housed at The Back Loft of La Catedral Studios, The Thing That Bruises You presents a salon style exhibition of works by a selection of recent photography graduates from across the island. Representing a broad range of innovative techniques, styles, and photographic practices, the exhibition promises to exhilarate, inspire and provoke. Works are mapped out floor to ceiling, gallery wall to gallery wall, representing a lavish visual survey of contemporary views and concepts undertaken by graduates in recent years. In so far as this exhibition engenders an opportunity to showcase these old and new works, it also attempts to address the vexed nature of being a graduate in the current climate, where the quest for gallery space, opportunities and recognition in the field are enduring issues. One hundred and sixty square meters of available wall space then acts as a metaphor reflecting these concerns, and to this end, no individuals works takes precedence and little space is left in-between.
Open Forum: challenges and concerns facing the Art Photography practice in Ireland, moderated by the festival Director Ángel Luis González.
During the exhibition, an open forum comprising of all participating exhibitors will take place in a bid to foster debate and discussion regarding the challenges and concerns facing art photography in a broad sense. In particular, photography graduates frequently remark that work often finds its final resting home beneath beds, behind sofas, summoned to the attic- endlessly gathering dust. This forum, which is open to the public, will attempt to address such obvious concerns, but equally, act as a framework in which to debate immediate and longer-term challenges and concerns facing art photography practice in Ireland. It is hoped that this important discussion will generate new ideas and proposals certifying a more auspicious future for the photography graduate. The talk will take place on Saturday the 10th of July at 19:30,
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