Valerie Bresnihan
Sarah Edmondson
Andrej Getman
Barry Gibbons
Niamh McGuinne
Ciarán O'Keeffe
Gary Reilly
Lena Willryd
We are delighted to welcome you all to our current online exhibition Spectacular Replica: An NCAD MFA Fine Art 2020 Graduates Exhibition, 21 – 28 January, 2021. The National College of Art and Design, Dublin and the NCAD Gallery are very happy to be able to host and to give the class of 2020 graduates this opportunity to exhibit their work. This is an opportunity to support the graduate class of 2020 in realising the culmination of their work and study that they would have ordinarily presented in June of last year, 2020. The title of this exhibition, Spectacular Replica makes reference to the realities of mediating the work of our arts and cultural practitioners through a screen based lens, as we are currently unable to physically witness their work or our own experiential response in close proximity.
For Spectacular Replica we have devised a number of ways to access the content of the exhibition online. This evening, Thursday 21 January 2021, at 5pm we will launch the exhibition with a live art performance, Dance Alone by exhibiting artist Ciaran O’Keeffe broadcast live on Instagram @ncad_gallery and @mfancad_. We are also fortunate to take advantage of the architecture of the NCAD Gallery window that faces onto Thomas Street, Dublin 8 where part of the exhibition can be viewed. O’Keeffe also performs Dance Alone in the gallery space to our on street audience daily from Monday 25th to Thursday 28th January at 5pm. We close the physical presence of this exhibition with an online conversation between the exhibiting artists and Matt Packer Director of Ireland ‘s Biennial, EVA International on Thursday 28th January 2021, at 1pm on the NCAD and Gallery YouTube channels and a video walkthrough of the exhibition can be accessed on this webpage www.ncad.ie/about/gallery.
Exhibition webpage: www.ncad.ie/about/gallery
