Camera Obscura
For over 2400 years, artists, scientists and thinkers have used the optical principles of the camera obscura to observe and survey our changing world. Not simply a tool or optical instrument, it is a way of seeing. More than a static object, it is a processual space – a space for mediation, meditation, discovery and encounter.
For this show, the Light House will be our camera obscura. Artworks on display are ongoing observations, insights, comments about the world outside. Views are inverted, spaces converted and ideas subverted in open, relational discourses. We invite you to come inside and encounter the developing mediations and meditations of the first year MFA & MA students of the National College of Art and Design.
22 artists from across the National College of Art and Design postgraduate programmes are coming together to share their developing work in the unique setting of the Light House Cinema. Curated by Ian Russell, the show features works from a broad range of media, including design, digital arts, installation, painting, photography, performance and sculpture. The themes addressed vary from artist to artist, and it will be a unique opportunity to experience the creative insights of a new generation of artistic voices. More information on NCAD’s postgraduate programmes can be found at: www.ncad.ie.
National College of Art and Design Postgraduate Interim Show ‘09
a darkened chamber in which images of external objects, received through an aperture and inverted, are exhibited in their natural colors on a surface arranged to receive them: used for sketching, exhibition purposes, etc.
For over 2400 years, artists, scientists and thinkers have used the optical principles of the camera obscura to observe and survey our changing world. Not simply a tool or optical instrument, it is a way of seeing. More than a static object, it is a processual space – a space for mediation, meditation, discovery and encounter.
For this show, the Light House will be our camera obscura. Artworks on display are ongoing observations, insights, comments about the world outside. Views are inverted, spaces converted and ideas subverted in open, relational discourses. We invite you to come inside and encounter the developing mediations and meditations of the first year MFA & MA students of the National College of Art and Design.
22 artists from across the National College of Art and Design postgraduate programmes are coming together to share their developing work in the unique setting of the Light House Cinema. Curated by Ian Russell, the show features works from a broad range of media, including design, digital arts, installation, painting, photography, performance and sculpture. The themes addressed vary from artist to artist, and it will be a unique opportunity to experience the creative insights of a new generation of artistic voices. More information on NCAD’s postgraduate programmes can be found at: www.ncad.ie.