- Jun 22 2022 - Jun 24 2022
Enjoy talks by artists, curators and culture makers celebrating Pride Month and the work of LGBTQ+ Artists and Community.
QUEER CURATION IN IRELAND - A LEGENDARY HISTORY AND CONTINUED LEGACY: SInead Keogh
Thursday, 23rd June, 1-2pm
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Queer Curation in Ireland - a Legendary History and Continued Legacy traces the early roots of queer led curation in Ireland from OutArt to exhibitions organised by LOT to queer creatives working within institutions. The aim of the talk is to generate discussions and celebrate histories of queer curators/instigators who provided platforms and opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community both pre and post decriminalisation and marriage equality. The political environment, public response and conceptual contexts will be discussed as well as the unity of the queer creative community in a cross sectional dialogue spanning diverse backgrounds.
GENERATION 2022 ARTISTS TALK: Peter Bradley
Friday, 24th June, 1-2pm
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Since graduating from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2014 with a first class honours BA in Painting, Bradley has exhibited work in group shows with The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Hermione Annual Exhibition, and was shortlisted for the Hennessy Portrait prize in 2016 and Zurich Portrait Prize in 2018. He has been awarded the Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award by the Galway City Council in 2017, and the R.C. Lewis Crosby Award for Painting in 2013. Bradley lives and works in Galway City.
Identity, gender, sex, and sexuality are prevalent themes in the work of painter Peter Bradley. Having had an obsession with Identity and gender from a young age, Bradley’s investigation is driven by the artifice of social constructionism and is inspired by those individuals who do not feel constrained by outdated ideas of what is acceptable or expected of them. His paintings are an analysis of identity presentation between and beyond the gender binary and a celebration of self-expression.
Particular attention is paid to the ever evolving realisation that gender, sex, and sexuality all exist on a spectrum.