Title: Waiting I Medium: Giclee Print Size: 508mm x 342mm Edition 1/5
"Defining Space, at the Original Print Gallery, arose from a conference investigation 'the meaning and role of space in contemporary theory and practice'. It was curated by Dr Hugh Campbell of the UCD School of Architecture and it includes work by members of the Black Church Print Studio and others. Much of the work included takes a relatively straightforward approach in that it depicts spaces of various kinds; Stephen Vaughan's forest glade framed by deep black walls, Lynda Devenney's photographic study of an unoccupied public waiting area, Colin martin's beautifully made prints of housing...."
Review of ‘Defining Space’ by art critic Aidan Dunne which featured in the Irish Times on Wednesday 5th March 2008.
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"The Original Print Gallery's exhibition Defining space, featuring members of the Black Church Print Studio and others, was an offshoot from an international interdisciplinary conference of the same name, which took place in late 2007 and was organised by Dr Hugh Campbell of UCD School of Architecture. The conference set out to explore the various connotations of space in the arts and social sciences and, subsequent to this, the artists were invited to respond to the term 'defining space' for this exhibition. Campbell himself curated the show and co-selected the works with artist Felicity Clear.
'Defining space' as a term, is twofold; it reflects upon how architecture or matter 'defines' or shapes space through form, but it also refers, more generally, to the many ways in which the word 'space' itself can be defined.... A more overt engagement with space is evident in the architectural spaces depicted in prints by Annraoi Wyer, Ann Kavanagh, Colin Martin and Lynda Devenney. Both Kavanagh and Wyer have created abstracted views of architectural forms, with Wyer focusing on disused ball alleys, thus reflecting on how spaces become defunct and desolate. Devenney depicts an empty waiting area in a rundown bus station, a space of flux and transit. As an example of 1960s brutalist architecture now threatened with demolition, it also demonstrates how a building can embody ideals that make it a physical expression of an era - ideals that become outmoded, even if the building itself continues to serve its function.
The diversity of artistic responces in Defining space reveals that definitions of space are boundless, overlapping, contradictory - proof that spatial concepts have certainly not yet reached a 'point of exhaustion'. There is always space for another interpretation , another definition."
Eimear Mc Keith
Circa
Contemporary Visual Culture in Ireland
Summer 2008
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