The Facebook page is now live for Hidden Currents. Opening 6pm Thurs 2 Feb, running 1-6pm (except Mondays) until 11 Feb 2012. Thanks to Louise and Phil at PrettyvacanT Dublin and Clerys for all the support.
Solo Show: Hidden Currents
I’m pleased to announce another collaboration with PrettyVacant,the initiative which re-purposes vacant Dublin properties as temporary exhibitions spaces for artists.
Hidden Currents, a solo show by Niamh Heery, opens at 6pm on Thursday 2 January and will run from 3-11 February 2012, 1pm-6pm, in a disused Travel Agency on Sackville Place, Dublin 1.
Building on previous work BULK, Hidden Currents attempts to bring the large scale world of commodities and freight movement down to a tangible, micro, Lego-sized level.
A continuation of Bulk, Juggernaut is a sculptural work made from Lego bricks. A cargo ship built to scale, the mass-produced Lego bricks respond to the masses of container blocks seen in the video work. Images to follow.
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Last Resort Documentary
Photo: Eilís Abbot. Click to view video.
My documentary ‘Last Resort’ about the lives of migrant women living in Salthill was screened as part of NUI’s Women in Action activities, Friday 26th, 6pm Crane Bar, Galway.
Last Resort is a short documentary film about Salthill, Co. Galway, told from the perspective of three African women. One of Ireland’s major seaside resorts has become home to an immigrant community where hundreds of refugees are housed in a hotel that has been converted into a direct-provision hostel. Last Resort is a lyrical postcard, detailing a contrasting landscape through the eyes of these newcomers.
Director: Niamh Heery
Producer: Eilís Abbot
Cinematography: Phillip Martyn
Sound: Glen Berry
Music: Dennis Cassidy
BULK: A Solo Show in Gallery 126, Galway
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‘BULK’ by Niamh Heery
Gallery 126, Galway, opening on Thursday, October 7 2010, 7pm. (Artist’s talk 6.30pm)
‘BULK’ is a new body of video, photography and sculptural work resulting from the artist’s investigation into the logistics of consumerism and capitalism. During April and May 2010, the artist embarked on a 24 day Transatlantic voyage on a freighter ship from Buenos Aires to London. Stopping at six different commercial ports in Latin America, Africa and Europe, she observed with great detail the routine processes and bulk operations that define modern industry and commodity culture today.
In a time of economic uncertainty, the cyclical process of cargo shipping is still a constant. Steel containers provide anonymity and conceal the items inside. Identical containers pack the docks and vessels with goods that are constantly hidden from view. ‘BULK’ explores the homogenized, anonymous steel domain that is the working port and invokes the idea of the double to portray the sense of overwhelming and sublime that one is met with when a system of commodity culture is revealed.
BULK is Niamh Heery’s first solo show and will run for three weeks from 7 October, 2010.
NEWS: Screening in Cologne
Untouched Triptych
A work of mine has been selected by the CologneOFF International Jury to have work selected as part of the CologneOFF International Video Art Festival 2010. Untouched (Triptych) will be shown in Cologne September- December 2010, details to be announced.
NEWS: ‘Spaced Out’ at the ILAC Centre, Dublin
I am exhibiting work as part of the Pretty Vacant arts initiative organised group show ‘Spaced Out’ at the ILAC Centre, Dublin.
The ‘Spaced Out‘ exhibition responds to the vast space of the unit at the ILAC while commenting on the wider issue of vacant spaces in Dublin and beyond. It is a group exhibition uniting thirteen artists who look at notions of space via their own chosen medium.
The artists are:
Olive Barrett | Caroline Doolin | AJ Doyle | Louise Farrelly | Gillian Fitzpatrick | Fionnuala Hanahoe | Frances Hayes | Niamh Heery | Emer Lynch | Denise McCabe | Lesley-Ann O’Connell | William O’Neill | Claire Weir
The exhibition is a large-scale group show incorporating painting, photography, installations and video projections.
Opening hours are:
Monday – CLOSED
Tuesday & Wednesday 10 – 5
Thursday 12 – 8
Friday & Saturday 10 – 5
Sunday 12 – 5
http://www.prettyvacantdublin.com/
Many Thanks to Louise Marlborough for putting together the show.
Double Scapes II
As part of an ongoing investigation into the logistics of consumerism and capitalism, I embarked on a 24 day Transatlantic voyage on a freighter ship in April/May 2010 from Buenos Aires to London. Rio de Janeiro
More about Double Scapes II in Art Projects
Bad Air
Bad Air
New work from Buenos Aires
NEWS: Losing the Light to be shown at University of Toronto
Still from Losing the Light, Niamh Heery, 2009
Losing the Light will be shown as part of a film programme in University of Toronto. The series, organised by Kate Miller of Ladyfest Toronto, takes place throughout March with the participation of Elle Flanders, Filmmaker and Professor at York University.
Event takes place at Hart House, University of Toronto, 8pm, Monday 29 March.
Doublescapes
Part of Double Scapes series
I have been working with expressing the idea of a claustrophobic global society by using sterile, familiar, yet surreal imagery. This has led me to think about social and political ‘double standards’, their normalization, application and impact. I am currently attempting to create visual metaphors of these principles by manipulating some of my landscape photography. Some of the images I am most satisfied with are in Art Projects
