Crawford Open winner (Monday 7 January 2008)
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| Michael Gurhy: Bath, 2006, DVD still; courtesy the artist / Crawford |
Michael Gurhy has taken the 5,000 euro Crawford Open prize. According to the Open's selectors, Frances Morris and Enrique Juncosa, Gurhy's work “beautifully addresses the Crawford Open theme Sleep of Reason. It is small-scale work but potent in terms of emotion. His work addresses youth culture but evokes a knowledge of the unforeseen, of premonition."
The Crawford Open has run into some controversy this year, as a result of an open letter by artist John Kelly; you can read more here.
According to the Crawford brochure,
Michael Gurhy graduated from Crawford College of Art
and Design in 2006 with a First Class Honors Degree.
His most recent exhibitions include the RDS Student
Arts Awards, Objects of Desire (2006). Death and Desire
(2007) at the Sirius Art Gallery, Cobh and in July 2007
Beyond Form,Tigi Fili Art Gallery, Cork.
Prizes and awards received include The Installation/video
award from the Cork Film Centre.The UCC Purchase
Prize selected by the Glucksman Gallery for the UCC
Collection and the Arts Festival Prize award given by the
Cork Institute of Technology. He has also shown
regularly in The Cork Film Festival and is currently doing
a Postgraduate Diploma in The Byam Shaw School of Art
(Central St. Martins)
“A Culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow
and superficial, concerned only with the external forms
of things.When death is denied life loses its depth.” - Eckhart Tolle
Die Young Stay Pretty (2006) explores the similarities
between fantasy and reality worlds and the loss of
innocence that comes with the passing of adolescence.
Bath (2006) is an intimate account, touching on sexuality,
vulnerability and intimacy, of a young man taking a bath.
Suspended in water and surrounded by darkness he is
forced to retreat inwardly and reflect on his life.
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