Join us for our new ‘Meet The Artist’ series here at Void Art Centre!
As part of our new ‘meet the artist’ series, join artist Banu Cennetoğlu on Tuesday 29th August from 7-8pm for an artist talk and Q&A session around her wider artistic practice.
Banu will be talking about her artistic practice, journey and inspiration in Void’s Engage Space – people are encouraged to attend the talk in person, although viewing the talk online is also an option. Please specify your preferred method of attendance in the Eventbrite sign up form.
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Banu Cennetoğlu is an Istanbul-based artist engaged in a wide range of cross-disciplinary practices. Her practice incorporates methods of archiving in order to question and challenge the politics of memory, as well as the production, distribution and consumption of information.
Cennetoğlu has had solo exhibitions at institutions including K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Sculpture Center, New York; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Bonner Kunstverein; Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest; Kunsthalle Basel. She has participated in the Berlin, Istanbul, Liverpool, Gwangju, Athens and Venice Bienniale, as well as Manifesta 8 and documenta14. She is the founder of BAS, an artist-run space in Istanbul dedicated to artists’ books and printed matter. Banu Cennetoğlu is currently an advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.
Artlink is researching the possibility of an Inishowen Art Festival. To support Artlink in this, curator Keith Whittle has created an inspiring programme of talks, mainly online, by some of the most renowned artists and curators working internationally to create art festivals celebrating unique places and voices.
As part of this programme, artist, curator and writer Leah Gordon will be giving a talk about the Ghetto Biennale, Haiti, originally conceived to expose social, racial, class and geographical immobility, on Tuesday 27 June, from 6-8pm. Leah will be presenting her talk via zoom but the call will be screened in Void Gallery, Derry. People are encouraged to attend the talk in person at Void to promote active discussion after Leah’s presentation, although joining online is also an option. Please state which in the eventbrite sign up form.
In December 2009, Atis Rezistans, the Sculptors of Grand Rue, hosted their first Ghetto Biennale. They invited fine artists, film-makers, academics, photographers, musicians, architects and writers to come to the Grand Rue area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to make or witness work that was made or happened in their neighbourhood. The Biennale aimed to be a “third space … an event or moment created through the collaboration between artists from radically different backgrounds”.
During this talk, Gordon will discuss one of the original strap lines of the first Ghetto Biennale: “What happens when first world art rubs up against third world art? Does it bleed?” The line is a transmutation of a quote from a book about the maquiladoras in Juárez, Mexico. The original quote, by Gloria Anzaldúa, states, “The U.S.- Mexican border es una herida abierta (is an open wound) where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds.” (Anzaldúa 1987, 3). She will explore what new practices, processes and relationships could emerge from these, often uncomfortable, entanglements.
The 2nd Biennale was held in December 2011. Yet while the Ghetto Biennale was conceived to expose social, racial, class and geographical immobility, it seemed to have upheld these class inertias within its structural core. In this presentation Gordon addresses the contradictions and challenges posed by the event, and how subsequent Ghetto Biennales sought to confront them.
Leah Gordon will also mention the current political crisis and insecurity in Haiti and how the Ghetto Biennale has responded to the situation. Gordon will conclude by reflecting how the Ghetto Biennale produces meaningful discussion about sameness and difference in an allegedly de-centred art world, and transcend different models of ghettoization?
Leah Gordon Biography
Leah Gordon (born Ellesmere Port, UK) is an artist, curator, and writer. Her work explores the ‘intervolved’ and intersectional histories of the Caribbean plantation system, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Enclosure Acts and the creation of the British working-class. In the 1980s she wrote lyrics, sang, and played for a feminist folk punk band. Gordon’s film and photographic work has been exhibited internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Dak’art Biennale; the National Portrait Gallery, UK and the Norton Museum of Art, Florida. She is the co-director of the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; was a curator for the Haitian Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale; was the co-curator of Kafou: Haiti, History & Art at Nottingham Contemporary, UK; and was the co-curator of PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince at Pioneer Works, NYC in 2018 and MOCA, Miami in 2019. In 2015 Leah Gordon was the recipient of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean. In 2022, her award-winning feature-length documentary Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters was broadcast in selected cinemas and on BBC 4’s Arena. In 2022, Gordon also exhibited in and curated the Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale exhibition at St Kunigundis Church at documenta fifteen, Kassel; her work showed at MOCA North, Miami; Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, NC, USA, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. In 2023 the Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale exhibition at St Kunigundis Church at documenta fifteen was awarded ‘exhibition of the year’ by AICA Germany.
Acknowledgements
Screening of the Arcade Fire film Planet Earth at the 2nd Ghetto Biennale 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Previous speakers in this programme include: David Teevan, creative producer, arts consultant and researcher, former director of the Clonmel Junction festival; Lewis Biggs, Chairman of the Institute for Public Art and Founding Director of the Liverpool Biennale (2000 – 2011); Shubigi Rao artist and curator of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India; and Fram Kitagawa, Director of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Japan.
This research is being funded by The Arts Council of Ireland Capacity Building Fund.
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
On April 27, arpilleristas Pilar López and Manoli Garcia Conzalez, from Fundació Ateneu Sant Roc group, Catalonia, facilitated a workshop in Void as part of their wider visit to Northern Ireland in association with the Mujeres Disruptivas exhibition to share their expertise in arpilleras.
Local Derry attendees were joined by participants who journeyed from London, Dublin and Donegal. The workshop brief was to make an arpillera doll themed on the ‘Mujeres Disruptivas’ exhibition which would contribute to a collective arpillera to show solidarity with refugees who have had their lives disrupted. It started with a short walk to the Tower Museum, led by Conflict Textiles curator Roberta Bacic, to view the exhibits displayed as part of Mujeres Disruptivas / Disruptive Women: Exhibition trail.
Once back in the workshop space, under the guidance of Pilar and Manoli – and with translation provided by Roberta – participants created arpillera dolls from scraps of material. There was conversation, concentration and space to reflect as the dolls themed on disruption took shape. Conflict Textiles Fabric Artist Deborah Stockdale, who also took part in the workshop, stitched the completed dolls on a hessian backing.
To mark Refugee Week 2023 (19-25 June), we will be unveiling the final artwork which was created during the session, Mujeres Disruptivas collective arpillera, to the public on Tuesday 20th June at 2pm in Void’s Education Space. Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be provided. A number of pieces from the Conflict Textiles collection will also be exhibited as part of this event.
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
Join us for the opening preview of Shezad Dawood’s solo exhibition Leviathan: We go elsewhere.
Exhibition continues from 17 June – 19 August 2023.
Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan film series is an episodic exploration of the current challenges we face in the intersection between climate change, migration, and mental health. The film series envisages a future eerily like our present, whose inhabitants are the survivors of a cataclysmic solar event. Each film is written from the point of view of an individual character, providing insight into their trauma and pathological traits and giving each episode its own personality, visual language and rhythm. At Void Gallery we are premiering Episode 8 of the series that elucidates the indigenous perspective on the impact of climate change and the nature of the universe according to their culture. The film looks at the interconnections between nature and the indigenous community. In ways, proposing we move from an anthropocentric view to the era of the Symbioscience, an epoch that highlights the interconnection between nature and humans, living together for mutual benefit and moving towards an ecological philosophy.
Dawood’s suite of paintings, Labanof Cycle, are based on research with the Laboratory of Anthropological Forensics (Labanof) at the University of Milan – an institute that conducts research on personal effects lost by migrants during sea crossings to Lampedusa, in order to help families identify missing relatives. A series of artefacts and objects from the Labanof archive provide the visual references for the textile works. These were developed in dialogue with the renowned textile manufacturer Fortuny, and incorporate their handmade fabrics. These works are a poignant reminder of the ongoing migrant crisis that continues to develop throughout the world – most recently with the war in Sudan.
The film and textile pieces create this symbiotic relationship to the crisis in terms of the climate emergency and migration. The humanitarian echoes the wider ecological crisis through the loss of species throughout the world. Migration is exacerbated through climate events and the collapse of crops, from monoculture farming to the resource-rich countries that are subject to wars both external and internal. The capitalist pursuit of extraction and greed drive these interconnected crises we are faced with continually; at which point does it turn? Dawood interweaves these narratives from disparate regions to create an awareness and a means to have a more holistic view of how the future might be shaped.
Shezad Dawood Biography
Shezad Dawood is a multidisciplinary artist who interweaves stories, realities and symbolism to create richly layered artworks, spanning painting, textiles, sculpture, film and digital media. Fascinated by ecologies and architecture, his work takes a philosophical approach, asking questions and exploring alternative futures through what Dawood describes as ‘world-building’ and ‘imagineering’. His practice is animated by research, working with multiple audiences and communities to delve into narrative, history and embodiment.
His fascination with the esoteric, otherness, the environment and architectures both material and virtual, can be seen across numerous projects, most recently at Night in the Garden of Love: Inspired by & featuring Yusef Lateef; WIELS, Brussels (2023); Sea of Redemption, Shezad Dawood x Zien; Integrations, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul (2023); HMS Alice Liddell, St Pancras Wires commission, London (2022) and previously at institutions as varied as Tate Britain, MoMA, MOCA Toronto and the MORI Art Museum, Tokyo. His film works have been screened internationally, including at the ICA, London; MoMA and Guggenheim, New York.
Acknowledgements
Promotional image credit: Shezad Dawood, Leviathan Cycle, Episode 8: Cris, Sandra, Papa & Yasmine, 2023. Single screen, HD video, 17:33. Commissioned by Hybrid Futures (a multi-part collaboration focusing on climate, sustainability, collaborative learning and co-production between Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; Touchstones Rochdale; University of Salford Art Collection and Shezad Dawood Studio, and generously supported by Arts Council England and Art Fund), Leviathan — Human & Marine Ecology Ltd, Void Gallery, Derry.
This exhibition was curated by outgoing Director of Void Mary Cremin. Mary’s programme of exhibitions will run until autumn 2024.
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
In conjunction with the current exhibition at Void Gallery – Re_sett_ing_s – artists Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine present Re_sett_ing_s_Knots as a billboard display located at Strand Road & Garden City, Derry, from 22 May – 4 June 2023.
For more information about the exhibition which the billboard display is derived from, please see below:
In October, 2022 Re_sett_ing_s, a collaborative exhibition between Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine opened at The Complex Gallery, Dublin. The artists, who are probably best known for working solo, were approached separately by Mark O’ Gorman speculating on ‘hidden connections’. Unbeknownst to him, they had a close friend in common, artist Anne Tallentire, whose Setting Out 3 (2021), with its yellow builder’s string and hints at musicality, acted as a kind of starting point and touchstone for the development of the work.
The process involved a visit, another, getting a sense of each other’s practice, for the possibilities of lines of commonality, of the edges of things and thinking. Derry, Dublin, Derry. The Artnz Belting company on Pennyburn. The transmitter masts at Sheriff’s Mountain. A beach. A park. An overcast sky. Risks are inherent within such an approach. They didn’t know each other very well beforehand. What has emerged has been surprising, unexpected and according to the artists themselves, quite liberating.
The temporality of the work resonated with Void’s programme so an invitation was extended to continue the collaboration at Void. Coincidentally, Void has also had the pleasure of working with Anne Tallentire, so the connective thread continues. The artists agreed, not just to re-install the exhibition in a new setting, but to deepen the conversation, bringing other unforeseen tones and layers into play as they developed new work in response to Void’s invitation.
Locky Morris has become known recently for using Instagram as a way of thinking, communicating and making work. Executed mostly in the moment, during daily walks, he posts images and short videos and sees it as a form of parallel practice which is often sculptural in nature. The lines between each artist’s work became blurred and ultimately irrelevant as Jaki Irvine’s use of video installation and filmic and sonic influences creates a confluence of images and sound, where each artist inhabits and crosses over into the other’s work, responding, playing and overlapping in the manner of a conversation. Thoughts and ideas, excited and pensive, have produced a suite of looping images and sounds that are tight but also unruly. At once attentive and loose. Both artists happen to be musicians. Here the sonic elements – rhythms, industrial sounds – overlap, partly orchestrated, adding to the sense of a visual, digital, soundscape where new forms constantly mutate and develop, both within and beyond the gallery space.
We are delighted to have been able to commission the artists to expand this work and bring new filmic, digital and sound elements to Void Gallery and beyond.
Jaki Irvine Biography
Jaki Irvine works with video installation, photography, music composition and writing. Her immersive video and sound installations tell stories through fragmented, elliptical and open-ended narratives informed by rigorous research. Irvine picks out evocative details from the landscape or cityscape, in particular honing in on Dublin and Mexico City, two cities that have shaped and informed her practice. Contested histories, sonic bricolage, the built environment, and the customs and communities of a city’s residents have all found their way into Irvine’s deep-reaching and polyphonic work: songs that filter through a city’s streets, overheard conversations, the flap of a hummingbird’s wings are given equal gravitas. Her attention is often turned to the peripheral or the undervalued: re-centring stories or figures written out of history, particularly female figures, or presenting an alternative approach to the present, making space for strangeness. Humans and nature become intertwined in her imaginative worldview, with plants, birds and creatures permeating her practice, and adding to the sense of the unknown and unknowable, and blurring the boundary between the real and the imagined.
Locky Morris Biography
Locky Morris was born in Derry City where he continues to live and work. Renowned for his early work that explicitly dealt with the conflict in Northern Ireland – most notably from a socially embedded perspective – he has gone on to develop another working vocabulary that moves fluidly between the personal, public and political. While still informed by the complexities and intricacies of his immediate landscape, this work extends across photography, video, gallery installation and incorporates the social media platform, Instagram. Morris’s practice, born in part out of a fascination for what confronts him in the often chaotic details of the everyday, is rich, inventive and marked by a visual playfulness that feels distinctly his own. Running parallel to this have been numerous large-scale works and interventions in the public realm. The work has also been influenced by his active musicianship.
Acknowledgements
Kindly supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Organisations Digital Evolution Award, thanks to The National Lottery.
Image by Simon Mills, courtesy of Void Gallery.
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Arts Council National Lottery Fund, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
As part of Celtronic festival, Void presents The Fully Automatic Model, Pauric Freeman, Sea Planes and Michael Mc Elroy on Saturday 8 April, 2-5pm.
Visitors are invited to listen to the performances in response to Re_sett_ing_s.
The Fully Automatic Model, based in Derry, Ireland, is an electronic music composer and performer. The Fully Automatic Model is widely known for his fascination of sculpting sound via modular synths, tape machines, DIY instruments and feedback / distortion circuits.
Seaplanes are brothers David & Graham Ginty. Born out of lockdown, the pair started to send musical ideas back and forth via Dropbox, and it soon became clear that a wealth of material was coming from long hours stuck at home, with nothing to do but run samples through a range of guitar pedals to see what would happen. Their sound was born of those sessions, merging electronica, post-rock and drone, with tracks that flow from lulling ambience to soaring crescendos all in the same space.
Pauric Freeman is an Irish new media artist working with sound, video, and installation. His audiovisual performances focus on the relationships between sonic and visual media, exploring the boundaries of cognition and human sensory perception. Inspired by digital environments and our interactions with technology, he develops generative visual systems that respond live to the varying rhythms and textures in his music. He has performed and exhibited work in Ireland, the UK, Germany, the US and Australia.
Michael McElroy is an electronic musician who has been part of the Celtronic line up since 2018. With two albums under his belt (Aviating and Time & Tide) he’s currently working on his third called Electric Island, which is due for release later this year. It’s a homage to the country of Iceland and Michael will be performing live versions of four tracks, namely Aurora, Mountains, Waterfalls and New Day Begins. The tracks will be performed alongside video images of Iceland .
Acknowledgements
Presented in conjunction with Celtronic Festival 2023.
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
Join artist Cara Donaghey and model Mel Bradley for an exploratory life drawing session using Re_sett_ing_s as a backdrop.
No prior experience required – just come along and give it a try!
Thursday 13 April, 7-8:30pm.
All materials will be provided.
£3 to secure space.
Acknowledgements
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
As part of our Void Explorers programme; a series of bookable workshops at Void Gallery aimed at children and young people aged 4-14 years old.
Children aged 4-8 and young people 9-14, join Grace Fairley, this April, to explore the process of animation!
Saturday 22 April 2-4pm (aimed at ages 4-8 years old)
To celebrate Earth Day we will be making stop-motion animations of nature inspired characters. Create the craziest flower, the tallest tree, or the longest worm and then bring them to life through the basics of stop motion animation!
Saturday 29 April 2-4:30pm (aimed at ages 9-14 years old)
During this workshop, we will be learning 2-D animation! Using Void’s current exhibition Re_sett_ing_s to gain inspiration, we will create a short 2-D animation by using the digital illustration app, Procreate!
Grace Fairley is a Belfast based illustrator with a passion for everything weird, wonderful, and colourful.
Courtesy of Grace Fairley.
Acknowledgements
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
Discover and create your own layered images with our Learning & Outreach Officer and artist, Zoë McSparron, by responding to aspects in Void’s current exhibition, Re_sett_ing_s, by Jaki Irvine and Locky Morris, through various different explorative drawing and composition techniques before coming together as a group to create a collaborative artwork.
6-7:30pm.
All materials will be provided.
Booking can be made via our website at www.derryvoid.com.
£3 to secure space
Acknowledgements
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
The Curiosity Club is a self-directed creative space in Void Gallery which is filled with various materials, activity prompts and mediums, inspired by our current exhibition, seasonal holidays and public programming for all ages to use freely, experiment with, and enjoy. It is open at various points throughout our exhibitions.
The Curiosity Club is open for families to call in and use from 12-4pm on the following dates throughout Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine’s exhibition Re_sett_ing_s:
Thursday 16 & Friday 17 March (St Patrick’s Day themed)
Activities include: leprechaun mask making, pot of gold hanging mobiles, giant rainbows and make your own leprechaun lookers.
Saturday 1 April (Krunal Gohil inspired)
Activity: Respond to Krunal Gohil’s exhibition through collaborative scroll drawing.
Thursday 6 & Friday 7 April (Easter themed)
Activities include: DIY Easter egg basket making, hatching Easter chick hanging mobiles, Easter Bunny mask making and pebble painting.
Saturday 13 May (Jaki Irvine and Locky Morris inspired)
As part of NI Mental Health Arts Festival
Activities include: Expand the image drawing, storyboard creations, large scale imaginary scene painting and imaginative story writing, using the Make it up! card game as a starting point (Make it up! was created by The Playtrail and Kippie productions in collaboration with Void in 2022).
Saturday 20 May (Jaki Irvine and Locky Morris inspired)
As part of NI Mental Health Arts Festival
Activities include: Expand the image drawing, storyboard creations, large scale imaginary scene painting and imaginative story writing, using the Make it up! card game as a starting point (Make it up! was created by The Playtrail and Kippie productions in collaboration with Void in 2022).
Stay tuned to our social media @derryvoid on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter for details of what’s in store for each session closer to the time.
Acknowledgements
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
On Saturday 4 March at 5:30pm, join artists Locky Morris and Jaki Irvine as they are joined in conversation with Anne Tallentire, to discuss the exhibition Re_sett_ing_s, which opens at Void Gallery on 4 March, and its origins. Book via our website at www.derryvoid.com. The event will also be live streamed on Instagram for those who cannot join in person. The exhibition opening will follow from 6-8pm.
Jaki Irvine works with video installation, photography, music composition and writing. Her immersive video and sound installations tell stories through fragmented, elliptical and open-ended narratives informed by rigorous research. Irvine picks out evocative details from the landscape or cityscape, in particular honing in on Dublin and Mexico City, two cities that have shaped and informed her practice. Contested histories, sonic bricolage, the built environment, and the customs and communities of a city’s residents have all found their way into Irvine’s deep-reaching and polyphonic work: songs that filter through a city’s streets, overheard conversations, the flap of a hummingbird’s wings are given equal gravitas. Her attention is often turned to the peripheral or the undervalued: re-centring stories or figures written out of history, particularly female figures, or presenting an alternative approach to the present, making space for strangeness. Humans and nature become intertwined in her imaginative worldview, with plants, birds and creatures permeating her practice, and adding to the sense of the unknown and unknowable, and blurring the boundary between the real and the imagined.
Locky Morris Biography
Locky Morris was born in Derry City where he continues to live and work. Renowned for his early work that explicitly dealt with the conflict in Northern Ireland – most notably from a socially embedded perspective – he has gone on to develop another working vocabulary that moves fluidly between the personal, public and political. While still informed by the complexities and intricacies of his immediate landscape, this work extends across photography, video, gallery installation and incorporates the social media platform, Instagram. Morris’s practice, born in part out of a fascination for what confronts him in the often chaotic details of the everyday, is rich, inventive and marked by a visual playfulness that feels distinctly his own. Running parallel to this have been numerous large-scale works and interventions in the public realm. The work has also been influenced by his active musicianship.
Anne Tallentire Biography
Anne Tallentire (b. County Armagh, Northern Ireland) has lived and worked in London since the 1980’s. Her practice encompasses moving image, sculpture, installation, photography and performance. Through visual and textual interrogation of everyday materials and structures, Tallentire’s work seeks to reveal systems that shape the built environment and the economics of labour. In 2018 Tallentire was the recipient of a Paul Hamlyn Award for artists. She is Professor Emerita at Central Saint Martins, where she taught from the early 1990s to 2014.
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, All Island Fund, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Bank of Ireland Begin Together Arts Fund, Community Foundation Ireland, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Enkalon Foundation, National Lottery Community Fund, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation.
Join artist Cara Donaghey and model Mel Bradley for an exploratory life drawing session using Isabel Nolan’s exhibition as a backdrop on Thursday 8th December and Thursday 13th April from 7-8:30pm.
Void Gallery is supported using public funding from Arts Council Northern Ireland, Austin and Hope Pilkington Foundation, Arnold Clarke Foundation, Derry City and Strabane District Council, The Ireland Funds, Ragdoll Foundation, Art Fund, Halifax Foundation, The Arts Society.
