One has to consider the audience potential for the Artist when using the web as a platform to exhibit their work. It opens up viewership on a global level while the physical gallery may be confined to a local audience. There is, of course, the question of experience. I immediately think of a most extraordinary experience when I viewed Bill Viola's "Messenger" in Durham cathedral over a decade ago. The experience remains vivid in my mind today. However, the access the web gives and with Artists' work now created and presented specifically for the web, we are allowed to have a very different and personal experience of the work being exhibited. We also have the convenience of sharing the work immediately with friends and colleagues. For both Siamsa and myself as Curator, this is a first. It is also, to the best of my knowledge, the first curated exhibition specically for the web in Kerry.
As with “In Pursuit and In Pursuit 2” which both took place in the Siamsa Gallery space, “In Pursuit 3” represents Artists from, or working in, Kerry. The work is exclusively lens based. Click each artists name to view work.
Andrew Duggan was the first Irish Artist to receive the Arts Council of Ireland Location One Fellowship in New York City and here Andrew presents 2 looped films, Bare I and II’ from his collaboration with Siamsa, the National Folk Theatre.
Donal Dineen may be best known from No Disco’ and his late night show on Today FM, but Donal has been at the forefront of working with film for some time now.
Eileen Healy's work featured featured in Local Local (curated by Deirdre O'Mahony) in the Gallery, Siamsa Tíre and her work Dusk Aperture’ is part of Farming: A Visual Stuttering’ recently exhibiting in X-PO in Clare.
Nina Finn-Kelcey known equally for her illustrations as her photography, here uses her camera to give us some beautiful details.
Treasa O’Brien was part of In Pursuit 1 and here she is represented with 4 films.Mosquito Bites was awarded a Special Mention at the Cork Film Festival 2007, and is also being screened as part of Weather Permitting, curated by Augustine O'Donoghue, a series of outdoor projections in various venues around Ireland in 2008
Michael Fortune’s Collections’ extends the exhibition out to the public and invites you to submit images of bears decorated with county and parish sporting colours.
My own work Clouds’ represents 6 months of documenting clouds mainly outside my home in Garraun with a second collaboration on film with Nico Brown.
Maurice Galway
Curator
May 2008
Little Men by Maurice Galway