Joe Humphreys, from the series Memory, Memorial, 1996
Moira McIver
Moira McIver, Joe Humphreys, from the series Memory, Memorial, 1996
About the Artist:
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.
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.