'In, Around & Aftereffects' | Ciaran Og Arnold, Martin Cregg, Mark Duffy‘
Roscommon Arts Centre | Opening April 6th 2018
In, Around and Aftereffects: The
Irish Midlands (2006 -2016) explores
the social, cultural and psychological landscapes of the Irish Midlands from
the height of the Celtic Tiger era, through the Irish recession and into a
post-recession context. The exhibition brings together work in three different
photographic languages emerging from the region. Ciaran Óg Arnold’s ‘Ive Been To The Worst of Bars’ sees beyond the
familiar in his hometown of Ballinasloe. In psychologically charged landscapes
and street scenes, this market town is tenderly evoked as an exotic location, a
soulful place of despair as well as hope. Martin
Creggs ‘Midlands’ has over ten years focused on the question of what the
Midlands is - situating the midlands at the frontier of the struggle over Irish
identity, questioning the very concept of what the ‘Midlands’ is – an
undetermined geographical entity, under constant construction and
re-definition. Mark Duffy’s ‘Vote No 1’
documents this and examines the culture of election advertising in Ireland. The
series focuses on the accidental, and often gruesome, disfigurements the
electoral candidates' faces suffer - an unintended consequence of their
posters' erection. Each body of work reveals the Character of the Irish
Midlands from a perspective of three artists of the same generation and who are
from the Region itself.
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