Right Time Wrong Place Friend

Right Time Wrong Place Friend

27/03/98 – 17/04/98

This body of artists work examines a crucial aspect of contemporary culture in terms of questioning the seemingly fashionable trend for the ironic cultural critique.

Artists: Anne – Marie Copestake, Chris Evans, Duncan Hamilton, Rachel Lowe, Declan Sheenan and Padraig Timoney.

You Can Chase Me With A Pitchfork If You Want To

You Can Chase Me With A Pitchfork If You Want To                                                

15/01/98-17/01/98

 

Featured Final Year Student Artists from the department of Fine Art at the University of Ulster. Explores notions of mediation, acts of representation through today’s technologies. An exhibition of  new approaches to new media by new artists in a newly painted gallery, where new is not the primary concern.

Artists: Alexa Brunet, Wendy Chaffer, Janet, Stella d’Ailly, Chris Donnelly, Brian Dynes, Kieren Hunter, Jennifer Leckey, Barry McCarroll and Paul Stewart.

Martin

Martin                                                                                                                     

30/10/98 – 27/11/98

 

Curated by David Goldenburg this exhibition showed in Catalyst Arts, North Street Arcade and the reception of Gentle Dental Care dentist surgery, Lisburn Road, Belfast. Martin took it’s point of departure and title from the 1978 George R. Romero film. Artists: Fiona Banner, Meg Cranston, Rod Dickinson, F.R.-E.S.P., Alison Gill, Hidesato Matsumoto, Shuko Nagata, Motohiko Odani, Hiroko Okada, O[rphan] D[rift], Switch, The Curators Arse/FLAG (Peter Fillingham, Tony Hayward, Runa Islam, Peter Lewis), The White Visitation, Chris Wilder, Steven Wong, Florian Zeyfang.

Reviewed. Sunday Times 08/11/98 + 29/11/98 G. Weston. Irish Times 25/11/98, Aidan Dunne

Ground

Ground                                                                                                         

19/2/98-13/3/98

 

Seven artists took part in Ground: Paul Dignan, Jill Henderson, Imelda Heron, John Mathers, Jim McKevitt, Jane Millar and Paul Rooney.  Selected to represent diverse approaches to contemporary painting.  The exhibition intended to develop the context of modern painting. The show also included a seminar with speakers, Francis McKee Gavin Murphy and Paul Dignan, the seminar explored the role of painting, recognising that painting today encompasses a variety of activities and practices.

Review. Circa 84 Summer 1998, Dougal McKenzie.