Willie Doherty takes a chair (Tuesday
15 March 2005)
compiled by Claire Flannery
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image of Willie Doherty courtesy University
of Ulster
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Two-time Turner Prize nominee Willie Doherty
has, last week, been appointed Professor of Video Art at the
University of Ulster. Doherty's work, primarily video installations
and photographs addressing the complexities of living in divided
societies, has been widely exhibited and duly acclaimed in Ireland
and further afield. His most recent work, entitled Non-specific
threat, will be shown in this year's Venice Biennale.
The work exemplifies his powerful confrontational style; engaging,
intense and emotionally penetrating.
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Wille Doherty: Non-specific threat,
2003, c-print mounted on plexiglass, 156 x 183cm. Image
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Intensely involved in the development of the
arts in Ireland, Doherty has been a member of the Arts Council
/ An Chomhairle Ealaíon since 2003 and a member of the
Arts and Humanities Research Board Peer Review College since
2004. Art journal readers will be well acquainted with Doherty's
writings, as he has been covered widely in CIRCA, Art
Monthly and ARTFORUM.
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