On Tuesday April 26th, The Gallery of Photography in Dublin’s Temple Bar will host a unique one-day event by Gavin Friday. Gavin and graphic designer Pete Reddy commissioned one writer and three photographers to work on the presentation of Gavin’s latest album ‘catholic’.
On display in this exposition:
- Requiem for the Fallen – a short story by Patrick Mc Cabe, inspired by the words, music and world of ‘catholic’.
- ‘catholic’ cover photograph shot by Perry Ogden.
- Inside layout photo works by Maciej Pestka.
- Documentation stills and short movie by Darragh Shanahan.
In recent years, Gavin Friday’s considerable energies have found expression in cinema, in soundtracks and in theatrical performance. With ‘catholic’ – An Exposition, Gavin Friday is making an art intervention, with a one day only gallery installation which will be punctuated by live performances at undisclosed times.
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Written by Gavin Friday for The Irish Times supplement “The Moderns”, on the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition “The Moderns: The arts in Ireland from the 1900s to the 1970s”
“Having recently come across a book of photographs of John Hinde’s Ireland from the 1960s and 1970s, I was totally taken aback that after all these years they had such a poignant effect on me…Was this the Ireland I grew up in? An O Connell Street in the 1960s looking like an exotic boulevard from a Technicolor Hitchcock movie? The images of Butlins so overtly lush with surreal detail, saturated colour and over decorated glamour that they would put David LaChapelle to shame. This was Ireland as an imaginary island, a place where the sun was always shining, as seen through the eyes of John Hinde, who in his genius meticulously and painstakingly staged, designed and produced these images. He didn’t create them for any aspirational purpose or as great art, but as postcards to be sold for a few pence to tourists and holidays makers. Andy Warhol eat your heart out! He was an innovator and outsider and his work is most definitely a touchstone for many-the extraordinary printmaker Tim Mara, the profound writings from the wonderful mind of Pat McCabe, the Pop Art of early Robert Ballagh and more recently, Sean Hillen’s magical ‘Irelantis’. In hindsight, as a teenager I wrongly discarded these postcards as stage Irish – it most definitely wasn’t the Ireland I grew up in, yet today, I love and embrace these photographs wholeheartedly. Ireland through the eyes of John Hinde…Wish you were here.”
John Hinde – Wikipedia
