Anthony Haughey & Loretta Igbosonu In-Conversation
Photo Museum Ireland 17th August at 7pm
Admission free, all welcome
This in-conversation event will address Anthony Haughey’s project Citizen, a small selection of which is featured in the No Place Like Home exhibition. The conversation will focus on the time Haughey spent photographing at the Mosney Direct Provision Centre. He will be joined by Lauretta Igbosonu, a founding member of the Global Migration Collective. Igbosonu has engaged in a long-term collaborative partnership with Haughey following a chance encounter almost twenty years ago.
Anthony Haughey is an artist and photography lecturer, supervising practice-based doctorates in the School of Media, TU Dublin,. He was Senior Research Fellow (2005-8) at the Interface Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design in Belfast School of Art, where he completed a PhD in 2009. His artworks and research have been widely exhibited and published and collected nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include: Open House, Whitworth Gallery Manchester; the film trilogy Assemble, a public artwork commissioned by Fingal County Council and made in collaboration with the Global Migration Collective, it will exhibited in Crawford Gallery, Cork in September 2023; Picturing People, National Gallery of Ireland; A Dress for Akunma, National Museum of Ireland; Citizen Nowhere / Citizen Somewhere: The Imagined Nation, Crawford Gallery, Cork, and Go Down Moses, curated by Teju Cole, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. He is an editorial board member of the Routledge Journal, Photographies, and chairperson of Fire Station Artist Studios. He recently completed an artist residency at Artlink, Fort Dunree where he produced Anthem, a collaborative art intervention to commemorate the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty signing. He is currently Decade of Centenaries artist-in-residence in the National Museum of Ireland and he is a co-editor of Socially Engaged Art Practice in Ireland: Contested Narratives, Places and Futures a forthcoming Cork University Press publication. A major exhibition and installation of his recent work will launch in the National Museum of Ireland in December 2023.
This programme is being supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media as part of the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum scheme.
Banner image: Anthony Haughey, Citizen series