Rita Duffy: Persistent Illusion

Saturday 10 June – Monday 30 October 2023
Rita Duffy, Circus Animals' Desert, 2023, oil on linen, 65 x 90 cm © Rita Duffy | Rita Duffy: Persistent Illusion | Saturday 10 June – Monday 30 October 2023 | Crawford Art Gallery | Image: Rita Duffy, Circus Animals' Desert, 2023, oil on linen, 65 x 90 cm © Rita Duffy –  strong colours, strong expressions; a figure with long hair wearing blue high-heel shoes is in a magician's box, with a saw resting on top, already having cut in a bit; on the box also is a model of a city, transected by the saw; there is a small donkey in the enclosure, but no magician; the figure looks very worried

For her first solo exhibition at Crawford Art Gallery, artist Rita Duffy presents a trilogy of new, large-scale works that address urgent themes of planetary crisis and political chaos. This triptych for our times has its genesis in Duffy’s intense series of small, satirical drawings, The Emperor has No Clothes (2020), which was recently acquired by Crawford Art Gallery for the National Collection.

Rita Duffy (b.1959) is one of the major contemporary artists to emerge from Northern Ireland. Encompassing themes and images of Irish identity, history, and politics, her work is often both personal and autobiographical. In her work, she also pays homage to the language of magic realism. A member of Aosdána, Duffy has previously been Artist-in-Residence at Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Institute (Trinity College Dublin) and held a Leverhulme Fellowship with the Transitional Justice Institute (Ulster University) to look at the role that visual art has in post-conflict societies.

Exhibition supported by an IMMA Production Residency.

Image: Rita Duffy, Circus Animals' Desert, 2023, oil on linen, 65 x 90 cm © Rita Duffy
Saturday 10 June – Monday 30 October 2023
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