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Periodical Review #3 at Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland, 2013;
Artist as Curator – Spectacle in Photography, Belfast, 2012.
Anna Rackard
works as a photographic artist and as a set designer in the
film industry. Since 1992 Anna has worked on over 30 films including
Ondine, Stella Days, The Butcher Boy, Braveheart and King Arthur.
In 2010 she won an ifta for her design work on 'Ondine' and again in
2012 for 'Stella Days'.
She returned to college in 2003 to study a degree in photography
in dit.
Since then she has shown in group exhibitions in imma, 2014; The
David Kronn Photography Collection, 2014; the rha Annual Exhibition
2003, 2006, 2012, 2014; The Gallery of Photography, 2008; Eigse and
The Purdy Hicks Gallery in London, in both group exhibitions and
for her solo show Farmers in 2007. In 2001 she published a book on
the Holy Wells of Ireland with the artist Liam O'Callaghan, and she
co-directed a documentary for tg4 on the same subject in 2004. Her
photographic work explores a number of different themes including
Irish identity in the Postcard series, and women's identity in the Farmers
series. Her most recent project, a series of portraits of people asleep
called sometimes we tenderly watch the sleeper, attempts to capture
people in one their most unguarded and intimate everyday moments.
Born in Donegal in 1978,
Ann Quinn
has been living in Dublin since
graduating from the ncad in 2000 with a ba (Hons) Degree in Fine Art.
She has had ten solo exhibitions in her career to date, including the
Taylor Galleries, 2013, the Dock Arts Centre, 2013, the Ashford Gallery,
2009, the Mullan Gallery in Belfast, 2010.
She has exhibited at the rha Annual Exhibition every year since
2004, and she has exhibited in group exhibitions across Ireland such as
Pallas Contemporary Projects, 2009 and 2010, Galway Arts Centre, 2010.
In 2009 she won the Hennessey Craig Scholarship at the rha, was
shortlisted for the Golden Fleece Award and received an Artist Bursary
Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. She won the k&m Evans Award
for Painting at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin in 2012.
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