Jaki Irvine Explained

Jaki Irvine
Birth Place:Dublin
Nationality:Irish
Elected:Aosdána

Jaki Irvine is an Irish contemporary visual artist, specialising in music and video installations, and a novelist. Elected to Ireland's national affiliation of artists, Aosdána, she represented the country at the 1997 Venice Biennale. She divides her time between Dublin and Mexico City.[1]

Career

She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 1997 with Alastair Mac Lennan.[2] In 2013 she wrote a novel, Days of Surrender, a fictional account of women in the Easter Rising. Irvine elaborated on the book through a video, music, and photography installation commissioned by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and shown also at Frith Street Gallery in 2016, called If the Ground Should Open.[3] [4] In 2018, her work was exhibited in Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study, curated by Chris Sharp in Melbourne, Australia.[5] Irvine's solo exhibition, Ack Ro’, shown at the Kerlin, opened in January 2020 and features 28 neon signs, using lyrical fragments from Neil Diamond’s song Cracklin’ Rosie, as well as a number of video works.[1]

Irvine is a member of Aosdána,[6] is represented by the Kerlin Gallery (Dublin) and Frith Street Gallery (London), and has works in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[7]

Work

Irvine's practice has been described as difficult to define, however, "music has been an important component of Irvine’s work", a recent example of this type of work includes the lauded If the Ground Should Open. It was commissioned "for the centenary of the Easter Rising and, specifically, the subsequent understated role of women in the rebellion" at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[1] It took the form of an installation included many videos of musicians and singers performing scores composed by Irvine.[8] She has used neon in some of her work.[1] In her film installations she utilises 16 mm film and 8 mm film, weaving real events with fictitious narratives.[9]

Critical reaction

Art in America writes: "Her works manage to wear their own artifice openly, even awkwardly, without becoming reductively trite or archly postmodern. They seduce us even as they reveal the tricks of their seduction. This is the beguiling—and redeeming—paradox of her art."[10]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Dunne . Aidan . 18 January 2020 . Art in Focus: Jaki Irvine – Ack Ro' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221020022943/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/art-in-focus-jaki-irvine-ack-ro-1.4138109 . 20 October 2022 . 25 January 2020 . The Irish Times . en.
  2. News: 23 January 1997 . Ireland at Venice . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221020022741/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/ireland-at-venice-1.24698 . 20 October 2022 . 6 November 2019 . The Irish Times . en.
  3. News: Perry . Colin . 12 April 2017 . Jaki Irvine . en . Frieze . 188 . live . 5 November 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210918185913/https://www.frieze.com/article/jaki-irvine-1 . 18 September 2021 . 0962-0672.
  4. News: Dunne . Aidan . 11 October 2016 . If the Ground Should Open... review: Anglo Tapes loom large . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221020023438/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/if-the-ground-should-open-review-anglo-tapes-loom-large-1.2819697 . 20 October 2022 . 6 November 2019 . The Irish Times . en.
  5. Web site: 2018-04-24. Una exposición sobre la CDMX en Australia. 2021-04-05. La Tempestad. es.
  6. Web site: Visual Arts - Jaki Irvine . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220419160755/http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/members/irvine/ . 19 April 2022 . 19 November 2019 . Aosdána.
  7. Web site: Jaki Irvine . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220702150722/https://imma.ie/artists/jaki-irvine/ . 2 July 2022 . 25 January 2020 . Irish Museum of Modern Art . en-IE.
  8. Web site: Long . Declan . 13 February 2017 . Jaki Irvine, If the Ground Should Open …, IMMA, Dublin . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210729180826/http://papervisualart.com/2017/02/13/if-the-ground-should-open/ . 29 July 2021 . 25 January 2020 . Paper Visual Art . en-US.
  9. Web site: Jaki Irvine . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519124202/https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/artists/26-jaki-irvine/ . 19 May 2022 . 19 October 2022 . Frith Street Gallery.
  10. Web site: Jaki Irvine. Cahill. James. 2014-05-26. Art in America. en-US. 2019-11-05.