Mother and Children with Bible and Gun, from the series Home, 1992
Anthony Haughey
Anthony Haughey, Mother and Children with Bible and Gun, from the series Home, 1992
About the Artist:
Anthony Haughey (b.1963) is a socially engaged artist, educator and co-founder of the Centre for Socially Engaged Practice-Based Research at TU Dublin. Recent exhibitions include the film trilogy Assemble, a public artwork commissioned by Fingal County Council and made in collaboration with the Global Migration Collective, installed in RCC Letterkenny and screened in Ulster Museum for Belfast Film Festival; Open House, Whitworth Gallery Manchester; Picturing People, National Gallery of Ireland; A Dress for Akunma, National Museum of Ireland; Citizen Nowhere / Citizen Somewhere: The Imagined Nation, Crawford Gallery, Cork; Go Down Moses, curated by Teju Cole, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and 21st Century Ireland in 21 Artworks, curated by Cristín Leach, Glebe Gallery, Donegal. His work featured in Gallery of Photography Ireland’s Reframing the Border programme, an installation, Field Notes From the Border and a collaborative public artwork with the late Seamus Deane in Derry. He was Senior Research Fellow (2005-8) at the Interface Centre for Research in Art, Technologies & Design in Belfast School of Art, where he completed a PhD in 2009. He is an editorial advisor for the Routledge journal Photographies and chair of Fire Station Artist Studios. He recently 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.
Details: Archival pigment inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Baryta, 70x80cm (paper size), uneditioned print, produced 2021, acquired for the National Photography Collection 2022.
The Edge Of Europe by Anthony Haughey
About the book
Anthony Haughey’s series of colour photographs are an evocative portrayal of the complex relationship between the West of Ireland, its landscape and people, and Irelands Diaspora on the East Coast of America. The Western Edge of Europe is a changing world where politics, history and economic hardship have forged the foundations of deeply rooted communities and enriched them with a fluent aural and musical culture. Haughey’s focus on the Great Blasket Island and the depopulated landscapes of western Ireland explores links with the past and vestiges of Irish Culture, and he challenges the populist notion of an Irish cultural Disney Land. Ireland’s Diaspora, the largest single population movement of the 19th century, has created huge global network of people claiming to be of Irish origin. The United States has become a home to millions of Irish people, a symbol of hope and economic freedom to many, whilst retaining unbreakable family ties with their homeland. In the last US census, forty million people claimed Irish ancestry.
About the National Photography Collection:
The National Photography Collection builds on the Gallery’s sustained commitment to supporting artists in the development and promotion of their work. Through collaboration, we hope to grow the collection as an archive repository offering an overview of photographic practice in Ireland.
As an essential critical and historical resource, the National Photography Collection is an exciting initiative for the Gallery and for the future of Irish photography. We are deeply honoured that the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins has agreed to be Patron of the Collection.
The artists featured in the Collection are:
Ciarán Óg Arnold; Enda Bowe; Noel Bowler; Ala Buisir; Simon Burch; Dorje de Burgh; Krass Clement; Shia Conlon; Martin Cregg; Mark Curran; Ciaran Dunbar; John Duncan; Tessy Ehiguese; David Farrell; Kevin Fox; Paul Gaffney; Clare Gallagher; Emer Gillespie; Karl Grimes; Anthony Haughey; Seán Hillen; Patrick Hogan; Tobi Isaac-Irein; Dragana Jurišić; Jamin Keogh; Jialin Long; Markéta Luskačová; Shane Lynam; Alen MacWeeney; Dara McGrath; Moira McIver; Yvette Monahan; Tony Murray; Brian Newman; Kate Nolan; Miriam O'Connor; Kenneth O'Halloran; Mandy O'Neill; Tony O'Shea; Pete Smyth; Nigel Swann; Harry Thuillier Jr; George Voronov and Róisín White.