peoples/persons
november 30, 2018
copper house gallery, dublin
peoples / persons explores the differences of how the human form is depicted visually. a practice which has extended as far back to ancient egypt, portraiture was traditionally used to convey the essence of a specific person - their traits and quirks, serving a specific function to illustrate the appearance of a given individual usually of great importance, as well as having both aesthetic and technical appeal. after the birth of photography, portraiture in general endured a metamorphosis, with the purpose of portraiture being called into question. the retrospective manifestations of this, which still live on to this day, result in the artist having greater freedom in who and what they would like to depict - friends, family, muses or even pets - and how they wanted to do it. curated by sophie murphy hot whiskey courtesy of glendalough distillery
Kathryn Rose, b. 1995 Neil Dunne Hugh Cooney Katarina Janeckova, b. 1988 Hugh Cooney James Kirwan Decoy
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