Landscape and Environment in Contemporary Irish Art by Yvonne Scott
Very proud and honoured to have my work included in this beautiful new publication:
LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY ART
by YVONNE SCOTT, published by CHURCHILL HOUSE PRESS
This book identifies a representative selection of compelling and intriguing artworks by a range of around one hundred of the most challenging and vibrant artists from, or working in, Ireland or whose work addresses Irish landscapes and environments. Examining them both individually and collectively, this book reveals primary motivations behind strategies of representation.
The artwork is explored through a series of focused essays generated by the images created by major artists, both established and emerging, carried out over the last two to three decades, reflecting the experience, observations and understanding of their landscape environment in an era of unprecedented change. My work is included in the chapter LANDSCAPE AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY including stellar line up of artists including Richard Mosse, Wille Doherty, Paul Seawright, Alice Maher, Rachel Fallon, Rita Duffy, Maria Simmonds Gooding and Dermot Seymour to name but a few…
Landscape has always been vital important in Ireland, as might be expected given the country’s history and geography and this field of representation has never been more vital and expansive that it is now in the first quarter of the twenty first century in the face of climate change.
Yvonne Scott is a fellow emeritus at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. She was the founding director of TRIARC (TCD Irish Art Research Centre). Her research focuses particularly on modern and contemporary art, specialising in the representation of landscape, nature and environment.
Published in association with Churchill House Press in association with Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Available from The Irish Georgian Society and IMMA
https://churchillhousepress.com/landscape-and-environment-in-contemporary-irish-art
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