http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2748-9769
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ABSTRACT
A visual essay consisting of uncaptioned images which recover an item of past auto-ethnographic reflection. The images originate from only one roll of 35 mm B + W film which in 1991 documented the derelict fabric of a pre-restored emotive site in Irish national memory. In Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin the leaders of the Easter 1916 uprising were executed by firing squad. The essay describes author’s failed attempts to engage with the site beyond its solemn facticity.
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Notes on contributor
Craig Richardson is an artist and a writer. Professor of Art at The University of Huddersfield, he is the author of Scottish Art since 1960 (2011, Ashgate). Recent articles are in The Drouth, Tate Papers, Visual Culture in Britain, The Journal of Visual Art Practice with delivered keynotes at NUI Galway and The University of Kansas.
ORCID
Craig Richardson http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2748-9769