Cire Perdue
"Interstice" Artspace Studios Galway at Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm 2011
Artist: Ben Geoghegan
Title: "Turf Bog Scene, Paul Henry" from the Hugh Lane Collection
Year: 2008
Medium: Photographic print mounted on MDF
Dimensions: 410 x 290 mm.
Price: 500.00 Euro plus p&p. Edition 2/5.
Artist: Ben Geoghegan
Title: "Still Life with Flowers, Pheasants and Woodcock, Unknown" from The Galway City Collection of Paintings
Year: 2005
Medium: Photographic print mounted on MDF,
Dimensions: 395 x 320 mm
Price: 500.00 Euro plus p&p. Edition 1/5.
Poster designed by Ben Geoghegan.
Residency - November 2009. 500 Word Documentation follows...
Artspace member Ben Geoghegan invited London based Visual Artist Saskia Takens-Milne to participate in an ongoing programme of various multi dimensional events in the Project Room, Artspace Studios, Galway.
A SALON > JUNE 20TH-22ND 2008
Ben took part in 'A Salon' hosted by Jennie Guy in Studio Six, Temple Bar Galleries.
Artists taking part; Mark Clare, Padraic E. Moore, J.P. Donleavy, Jesssamyn Fiore, Jessica Foley, Russell Hart, Sarah Hurl, Mit Jai-Inn, Susan MacWillian, Adam McEwen, Vanessa Marsh, Kitty Rogers, Laurie Schneider, Susan Thompson.
For further info. www. twovoicesmeet.com/salon
Text by Dr. Gavin Murphy
Galway Arts Centre
6th September 2006
Reasons to be Cheerful …
One: ‘A little drop of claret – anything that rocks’
126 arose from Austin Ivers and Ben Geoghegan’s gripes about the visual art scene in Galway. 126 is the means by which they have addressed these gripes. Initially, it has been an art gallery created in their living room. The policy was to exhibit contemporary art by established artists who have not had the opportunity to show in Galway.
FUSED 06 - Obscured by Architecture
Curated by Michael Dempsey
The following text is from 'A look behind the canvas' by Aidan Dunne published in The Irish Times on July 26, 2006.
"As part of 'Obscured by Architecture' in Tallaght, Ben Geoghegan's series of photographs, 'Galway Art Collection of Painting' (verso), is arranged along one wall of the building's public concourse. A row of pictures, you might think at first glance, and of course you would be right. But they are also the opposite of pictures. Geoghegan has ingeniously taken paintings from the Galway City collection and photographed their backs."
Ben Geoghegan's monumental photograph Reconstructed, of a degraded Connemara landscape, towered over the proceedings, and established from the outset that this was not the Galway arts scene as one would have known it. His image undercut much of the melodrama and sentimentality which can be found in the myriad landscapes produced ad nauseam with the tourist market in mind, and in the smaller photographs he exhibited in a separate show -scape in GAC - he used an almost abstract compositional format with images of intermediary zones of the Galway area shot with a detached urban sensibility.
This text is taken from a review written for Circa by Katherine Waugh called "Tulca 2005, Galway city, October - November 2005".
Please see www.recirca.com/reviews/2006/tulca/t.shtml for the complete review.
Installation view of 'Connemara Reconstructed' shown as part of Interim. Curated by artists Ben Roosevelt and Emma
Houlihan
'-scape' solo show at Galway Arts Center, Top Gallery.
Reviewed by Aidan Dunne Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
'Ben Geoghegan's '-scape', as with his contribution to 'Interim' are fine photographic works which, by their structure and subject matter, question our habitual respones to landscape, prompting us to look beyond standard pictoral formulus.'
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