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This collaborative project between visual artist, Brian Teeling and arts writer, Jennie Taylor explores Crawford Art Gallery’s buildings and its immediate surroundings through a printed publication which is populated by photographic images and pieces of flash fiction. Capturing and entangling a stillness as a witnessing object and the frantic movements of a living gaze, in this publication time fictionally folds and collapses to bring details from 1921-1924 into a dislocated moment.
Teeling and Taylor’s work is drawn from research of the buildings’ architectural features, the permanent display in the Sculpture Galleries, a selection of buildings located in Emmett Place, events that occurred and were visible from the Gallery during 1921-1924 and the lives of local artisans from the same period.
Teeling and Taylor in the glow of a frozen flame © Brian Teeling
URSULA BURKE: These Fragile Monuments
Ursula Burke will create a tapestry frieze which investigates Irish historical, art historical and contemporary representations of guerrilla warfare. The tapestry is inspired by the work of Norwegian tapestry artist Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) who made a series of powerful tapestries representing images of resistance and highlighting the brutality of Nazi occupied Norway during World War II. The artist has invited Ukrainian weaver Zhanna Petrenko to weave the tapestry, creating a thread between two countries and periods of time - Ireland and Ukraine, both suffering oppression at the hands of a more powerful neighbour and both having common experiences of the devastating effects of famine.
Burke will also create a sculpture of a battle - bruised dog modelled on ‘The Jennings Dog’ - a Greek bronze from the 2nd century CE - which will be covered in hand embroidered flames emblematic of all the houses and commercial premises that were burnt out by the Black and Tans.
Ursula Burke Work in Progress (2023) © the artist
In Conversation: Ursula Burke and Edwin Coomasaru
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