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Message from Aideen Barry ARHA
Dear Reader,
I hope this message finds you well and not too overwhelmed. Believe me, there have been times when I have been absorbed in a kind of tsunami of feelings, like being swept away by endless worry and concern: when are we ever going to move beyond this limbo? What will the flip side of this upside-down world look like when we manage to counter the capsized reality of what we are living through?
More and more, I am starting to become aware of the inequality of this pandemic and how it has had a profound affect on our most vulnerable citizens, how gendered the inequality has been, how years of progression on the status of women in particular, have been rolled back, and how the lack of critical consideration of these decisions is affecting people in profound ways. I am also becoming increasingly concerned about the expectations that are being put on artists when we will need to coax the public back into the public space again, and the burden of establishing trust and meaningful engagement between the viewer and the work in the potential post-pandemic gallery or public context.
How will we feel when we can be together again? What kind of emotional reasoning will we need to consider our proximity to others? Is there an inoculation to the trauma that some people are living through? Like the way a vaccine works, is the role of art and the artist to inject us with some of the antigens of these pandemic experiences, or perhaps antibodies, like an anti-Covid anti-depressant? These are all the considerations that are driving a series of new works that I am pondering at the moment.
I am engaged in creating post-pandemic viewing furniture: special vitrines that contain 300 degree moving image environments that are socially distancing and simultaneously encompassing or enveloping of the viewer, perhaps a bit like an awkward hug. There is a playfulness about these proposed new works that I hope will entice people to engage with the moving image and animations within, created from an evolution of the drawings I made during the first lockdown. I am now composing a humorous moving image taxonomy where these weird, monstrous, somatic protagonists play out bizarre and strangely odd engagements with each other in an in-between of allegory and self reflection.
These plans are only in their infancy but I share them now as a way to hopefully install a sense of hope, that there will be an after-life to this and that many of us artists are thinking about that strange and awkward space where we will meet each other again, and perhaps not really know what to do with ourselves.
Aideen Barry ARHA
Image: Aideen Barry, Proposed maquette of design of video/furniture works, which will house a 300 degree projection screen made up of a video mapped series of inter locking projected animation works.
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RHA EXHIBITION
191st RHA Annual Exhibition
Digital Submission
NOW OPEN
The RHA are now accepting digital submissions to the 191st RHA Annual Exhibition, Ireland's largest and longest running open submission exhibition.
See link below for more information and important dates to note.
SUBMISSIONS WELCOME HERE
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RHA LEARN
Home Office Art with RHA Programme Board Chair, Bernard Dunleavy SC
1pm, Wed 31 March
Instagram Live @RHAGallery
Join us on Instagram live on your Wednesday lunch break for a conversation with RHA Exhibitions Curator, Ruth Carroll and Bernard Dunleavy SC, Chair of the RHA Programme Board and collector, looking at Bernard’s home office art collection. #homeofficeart
MORE HERE
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RHA MEMBER
WEBSITES
View a large selection of works by Academy Member, Joe Dunne RHA, including landscapes, portraits, still lifes and abstract works.
VIEW HERE
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RHA SCHOOL
Revisit: RHA Lecture Series, Available to View Online
Colin Martin RHA, Head of School:
Stephen Brandes works across the areas of video, painting and drawing. He creates large topographical drawings that map things that ordinarily may not exist together creating tapestries of place and temporality. This talk from the On Drawing lecture series, outlines Brandes' practice to date and his thoughts on the context of contemporary drawing.
If this is your first time to view an RHA School lecture online, please first register here:
FIRST TIME REGISTRATION
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RHA STAFF SUGGESTS
RHA staff suggest websites, podcasts, links, activities and more!
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