REFRAMING 100 PROJECT SHOWCASES CREATIVE RESPONSES TO THE BORDER AND SEEKS PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS
Reframing 100 was a unique project from the Gallery of Photography and the Nerve Centre’s Making the Future project that aimed to connect and inspire people by sharing photographs on billboards and an online instagram campaign.
100 years on, the border in Ireland continues to provoke intense speculation and debate. Reframing 100 presented 11 photographic installations by 9 contemporary artists whose work responds to issues raised by the border. The public billboards shared the artists’ works with border communities in location across the borderlands:
Armagh City: Enda Bowe – Love’s Fire Song
Carrick-on-Shannon: Nigel Swann – Borderlands
Cavan Town and Omagh: Brian Newman – Border People
Derry~Londonderry: Anthony Haughey – Field Notes from the Border
Dundalk: Ciaran Dunbar – Diesel
Enniskillen: Kate Nolan – LACUNA
Monaghan town: Kevin Fox – Drum: Portrait of a Village
Newry: Sean Hillen – Newry Gagarin Crosses the Border (2021 edition)
Sligo town: Dragana Jurišić – Fields of Gunnera
The billboard installations were on display from 3rd - 31st May 2021.
Public Engagement @Reframing_100 instagram
@Reframing_100 invited people to share photos with the project's instagram to create a real time archive. This important visual record showcased and reflect on how the last 100 years have shaped our identities and our landscapes. The project invited people to search and follow #Reframing100 adding the hashtag to their own photos and tagging the project page @Reframing_100 to have their say and share their stories. The final billboard featured a selection of photographs shared to the @Reframing_100 Instagram account.
Background: The 9 artists included in the Reframing 100 billboard installations have been featured in the wider Reframing the Border project, a 5-year programme exploring the diverse geographical, psychological and imagined spaces of the borderlands in Ireland. Developed in partnership with artists, curators, arts organisations, communities and funders, Reframing the Border offers creative insights into the issues affecting border communities. It presents work made in the borderlands to border communities through a programme of exhibitions, events and public art installations.
Reframing the Border is supported by: Department of Foreign Affairs - Reconciliation Fund; Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media -Co-operation with Northern Ireland Scheme; Monaghan County Heritage and Arts Offices; The Heritage Council; Monaghan County Creative Ireland programme; Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny; Remote Photo Festival and Donegal County Museum. Gallery of Photography Ireland is supported by The Arts Council and Dublin City Council.
Making the Future
Making the Future is a cross-border cultural programme empowering people to use museum collections and archives to explore the past and create a powerful vision for future change. The regional programme is being delivered by a consortium of leading cultural organisations including the Nerve Centre, National Museums NI, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and Linen Hall Library, supported through €1.82m of EU funding under the PEACE IV Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).
Special EU Programmes Body PEACE IV
The Special EU Programmes Body is a North/South Implementation Body sponsored by the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in Ireland.It is responsible for managing two EU Structural Funds Programmes, PEACE IV and INTERREG VA which are designed to enhance cross-border co-operation, promote reconciliation and create a more peaceful and prosperous society. The Programmes operate within a clearly defined area including Northern Ireland, the Border Region of Ireland and in the case of INTERREG VA, Western Scotland. The PEACE IV Programme has a value of €270 million and aims to promote peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland. For more information on the SEUPB please visit www.seupb.eu
Nerve Centre
The Nerve Centre is Northern Ireland’s leading creative media arts centre with sites in Derry~Londonderry and Belfast. More than 120,000 people a year benefit from the Nerve Centre’s wide-ranging programme of arts events, cutting edge projects, creative learning centres, training opportunities and state-of-the-art production facilities.