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Anthony Haughey
Anthony Haughey 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. HIs work has been purchased for the National Photography Collection at Photo Museum Ireland.
Artist Projects
Mother and Children with Bible and Gun, from the series Home, 1992
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Anthony Haughey, Mother and Children with Bible and Gun, from the series Home, 1992
Anthony Haughey, Mother and Children with Bible and Gun, from the series Home, 1992
Details: Archival pigment inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Baryta, 70x80cm (paper size), uneditioned print, produced 2021, acquired for the National Photography Collection 2022.
Anthony Haughey's Book
Edge of Europe by Anthony Haughey
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.
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