Trish Morrissey In-Conversation with Kate Best

5.00pm Thursday 23 November
Photo Museum Ireland

For free. For everyone.

Join us for a special in-conversation event with the artist and curator Kate Best. They will discuss the background to Morrissey’s practice, the works featured in the exhibition, and the development of her artistic approach over the last twenty years.

This is a free event but places are strictly limited. Book your ticket at the link below.

Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present  the Irish premiere of Autofictions: Twenty years of photography and film which brings together Trish Morrissey’s work from the past twenty years, starting with early projects that reflect on the artist’s childhood in Ireland, and culminating with her most recent film, Eupnea. Morrissey’s practice crosses the disciplines of performance, photography and film. One of the leading Irish artists of her generation, she came to prominence in the early 2000s among a generation of women working with staged photography, often putting themselves in the picture. Throughout, Morrissey reflects on her own experiences and uses her body to re-enact those of others, producing a cumulative narrative – or autofiction – about female experience, from youth to motherhood, middle age and beyond.

Kate Best Biography:
Kate Best is a curator who has collaborated with Trish Morrissey on both Autofictions and Trish Morrissey; A certain slant of light (Hestercombe Gallery, 2017). Other recent project include Where Function Ends: Responses to the Archtecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens (with Alex Hartley, Liz Nichols and Oliver Sutherland), Hestercombe (2019); The Moon and a Smile, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2017); and Double Take: Photography and the Garden (Gertrude Jekyll, Sarah Jones, Helen Sear and Mark Edwards), Hestercombe, (2015). Kate was previously Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, where her projects included Twilight: Photography and the Magic Hour (2006); Between Past and Future: Photography and Video from China (2005); and Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica (2005).