22/11/05 Seminar Information part 3
Willie Doherty
The artist that I find most interesting in relation to my project is Willie Doherty. Doherty was born and still lives close to Londonderry in Northern Ireland and has been making work since 1980. His work comprises both photography and video and is very rooted in his hometown of Derry and of the divide that runs through the city and the province of Northern Ireland. His work often possesses an uneasy tension. Doherty sites his witnessing at the age of 12 of “Bloody Sunday” as being highly influential. This occasion when unarmed Catholic civil rights protesters where killed by British paratroopers was subsequently denied and suppressed through the media and by the British Government (Public enquiry started 2002, report pending). From this early age Doherty was aware of how situations could be twisted by those in power and the media. His work has subsequently played with the notion of dual or multiple readings of events and is almost exclusively made in and around Derry and the adjacent border areas. He is careful not to express partisan opinions in his work, but rather addresses the more universal issues confronting people within similar divided lands.
The artist that I find most interesting in relation to my project is Willie Doherty. Doherty was born and still lives close to Londonderry in Northern Ireland and has been making work since 1980. His work comprises both photography and video and is very rooted in his hometown of Derry and of the divide that runs through the city and the province of Northern Ireland. His work often possesses an uneasy tension. Doherty sites his witnessing at the age of 12 of “Bloody Sunday” as being highly influential. This occasion when unarmed Catholic civil rights protesters where killed by British paratroopers was subsequently denied and suppressed through the media and by the British Government (Public enquiry started 2002, report pending). From this early age Doherty was aware of how situations could be twisted by those in power and the media. His work has subsequently played with the notion of dual or multiple readings of events and is almost exclusively made in and around Derry and the adjacent border areas. He is careful not to express partisan opinions in his work, but rather addresses the more universal issues confronting people within similar divided lands.
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