On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Jaki Irvine in 2020. It was a very unique episode where the artist decided to appear in the interview as a digital foam entity, a delight!
Using video installation, photography, music composition and writing, Jaki Irvine explores the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us, a process which, for Irvine, has both philosophical and political implications.
Jaki Irvine has written many critical texts and short writings on other artists work in the past, including Extinction Beckons, for Mike Nelson, a book commissioned by Matts Gallery. In 2013 she wrote Days of Surrender, her first novel, published by Copy Press, UK.
Irvine is represented in the collections of IMMA, the Irish Arts Council, Tate Modern, FRAC and in numerous other collections, both public and private. In 2014 her permanent photographic commission, Shot in Mexico, was installed in the Deutsche Bank in Dublin.
In September, 2016, she presented If the Ground Should Open, a major new commission for the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. This was then shown at Frith Street Gallery, London, in 2017.
She is a member of Aosdana and an artist advisor at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam.
She is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
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