Moira McIver (b. 1962) is an Associate lecturer in Fine Art teaching photography and video within the BA honours Fine Art course, Belfast School of Art. She graduated with a Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Ulster in 1996.
Moira McIver’s photographic and video art projects are often based on historical events and the interplay between mainstream perspectives and individual’s experience and recollection. Her previous research interests have been photographic and video art projects based on historical events from a contemporary female perspective. Her work often focuses on the interplay and tension between social history and the individual and how our sense of the physical body remains central to this discourse.
In more recent artwork, McIver uses historical photographic techniques as part of her research into social, political and gendered perspectives on early Irish photography.
Details: Archival pigment inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Baryta, 60x70cm (paper size), uneditioned print, produced 2021, acquired for the National Photography Collection 2022.