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Keeper
- The Maze/Long Kesh Project 1998 - 2007 |
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Keeper is an extensive series of artworks initially based around Long Kesh/The Maze and includes the artworks 'Portraits' & 'Billy's Museum'. Since 2005 The Keeper Exhibition series has shown at Triskel, in Cork. The Void in Derry and the Galway Art Centre. The German language presentation of the 'Hunger Strikers' sound installation premiered at Kunsthaus Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria in 2007. 'Billy's Museum' is at the
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"The Maze" prison was developed from the "Long Kesh"
internment camp and once confined more than a thousand men. It became the
scene for symbolic protests and radical agitation which lead to it attaining
a special status and focal point of the conflict in Northern Ireland. It played
a significant role in the negotiations for 'The Peace Process' and was finally
closed down on 29th September 2000. |
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After
taking part in artist in residency program in The Maze, 1999 (Time
Trap) and organizing the art from prison exhibition Captivating 1998/1999/2000
for the Prison Art Foundation, Belfast. The artist was able to develop working
relationships with the prisoners & prison staff. During this time she was
given access to document security sensitive areas such as the original Long
Kesh Compound. The first and central work to come from this material is Billy´s
Museum, which premiered at Artiade: Visual Art at the Olympics 2004, Athens,
Greece. |
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The Keeper Exhibition Series is based on material gathered by the artist since 1998. The Keeper
artworks are connected with individual and group events, based around
a specific site/time of social and historical change. The works examine
issues of custom, ideas and values. How forms of culture prevail, even
in environments of the extreme. |
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Review by Brian Keenan RTE 2005 :
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Wall Paper Installation 2007 |
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The Portraits, 2005 - ongoing |
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Billy's
Museum DVD, 2004 |
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'Strikers, Narrative #1, 2005/2007 |
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"The
Soldier & The Queen", video installation 2005 |
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Time
Trap - 17min animated collaboration with Loyalist and Republican Prisoners 1999 |
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'Bomb'
Colour inkjet prints, (size varies) 1999 |
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'Consuming
Politics' four monitor video installation DVD 1997/1998 |
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