Ailbhe Greaney’s work centres around subjects of Migration, Empathy and The Impossible View. Using photography, text, video and installation, Greaney’s work challenges our unique perspectives and views of life today. Focusing on the physical view from the window, the work uses this as a starting point to explore our different visual perspectives through photography.
ARTIST BIO
Ailbhe Greaney is an artist and academic. She is one of the founding members of the Belfast School of Art BA (Hons) and MFA Photography Degree Programme. Ailbhe is a graduate of Dublin City University and the School of Visual Arts New York, where she graduated as a Fulbright and Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholar. The recipient of a number of national and international awards, Ailbhe is a Fulbright Commission Award Review Panel Member, Board Member of Young At Art and External Examiner at both Falmouth University and Munster Technological University. Ailbhe has previously held positions at The Guggenheim Museum New York, Blind Spot Magazine, Lux Imaging, Here Is New York and SVA. Her work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, within institutions such as Aperture Foundation New York, Belfast Photo Festival, CCI Paris, EVA International, Fast Forward Women in Photography, Format Festival, Golden Thread Gallery Belfast, PhotoIreland, Photo Museum Ireland, SPE, Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool.
The Light Beautiful (II): 13 Rue Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2014, Ailbhe Greaney, 76.2cm x 101.6cm (print only), Photograph printed on archival pigment paper mounted on aluminium Dibond
Top Left: An installation shot of A Room Without a View, Ailbhe Greaney, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2022
An installation shot of A Room Without a View, Ailbhe Greaney, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2022
An installation shot of A Room Without a View, Ailbhe Greaney, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2022
Ailbhe’s work The Light Beautiful attempts to bring the outside inside, to make exterior the interior. It reflects upon the feeling OSCAR Wilde had for light, communicated to us via Kevin O’Brien’s ‘The House Beautiful: A Reconstruction of Wilde’s American Lecture’. Wilde’s ‘The Decay of Lying’ and ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ also serve to underpin the concepts embodied by The Light Beautiful.
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky
from ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’, Oscar Wilde, 1897.
The Light Beautiful (I): 21 Westland Row, Dublin, 2014, Ailbhe Greaney, 76.2cm x 101.6cm (print only), Photograph printed on archival pigment paper mounted on aluminium Dibond
TITLE
THE LIGHT BEAUTIFUL (II): 13 RUE DES BEAUX-ARTS, PARIS.
ARTIST
Ailbhe Greaney
ABOUT THE WORK
Ailbhe Greaney’s works, The Light Beautiful (II): 13 Rue Des Beaux-Arts, Paris and The Light Beautiful (I): 21 Westland Row, Dublin attempt to bring the outside inside and make exterior the interior. Both images were created in the rooms of Oscar Wilde's birth, 21 Westland Row, Dublin, and death, 13 rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris. The works’ titles reflect on the feeling Oscar Wilde had for light, as described in Kevin O’Brien’s book, ‘The House Beautiful: A Reconstruction of Wilde’s American Lecture’. Further references include Wilde’s collection of essays, ‘The Decay of Lying’, and poem, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’, writing which touches on the concepts of beauty and mortality central to The Light Beautiful series.
DATE
2014
DIMENSIONS
76.2cm (w) x 101.6cm (h) (Print only)
MEDIUM
Photography print on archival pigment paper, mounted on aluminium composite sheet (Dibond) which is specially optimised for display
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Edition of 5
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ailbhe Greaney is an artist and academic. She is one of the founding members of the Belfast School of Art BA (Hons) and MFA Photography Degree Programme.
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