press release photo exhibition

1. The Ivy House, 114 Upper Drumcondra Rd, Dublin 9, +353 1 837 5385, info@theivyhouse.ie, www.theivyhouse.ie
Art at The Ivy House Bar and Restaurant
114 Upper Drumcondra Road
Caillte agus Faighte
Lost and Found
an exhibition of new and old work by
McBett
1 September - 1 December 2017
Art at The Ivy House is delighted to welcome McBett to return to The Ivy House with a new solo
exhibition entitled Caillte agus Faighte/ Lost and Found. In 2001 when Art at The Ivy House was
launched McBett was the first artist selected for a solo exhibition through an open call for Art at
The Ivy House. In this new solo exhibition McBett presents a series of works that have been
revisited, reworked, remade for the context of the space.
Shot on the bridge to the new millennium in 1999-2000, shortly after McBett's arrival in Dublin,
these photos exhibited here for the first time, aim to express the sense of transition and
impermanence she notes from that period. The frozen motion black and white images -made on
occasionally borrowed second hand analogue cameras and developed manually - preserve the
memory of the instant they were shot. Meantime the old Smithfield Market was going to change
face forever, most of the images represent people and situations at the monthly Horse Market in its
temporary location on the back area of the Morning Star. Here they are printed and set as old
newspapers into found drawers.
The other series of photos in the exhibition include elements of the city, rural markets and the
passage of foreign cultures in its early stages, just on the sparkles of the economic boom once
called the Celtic Tiger. These photos are enlarged and glued to re-painted boards like old walls on
which the story of the time gets stuck like old posters to impressive effect.
McBett
Maestro d'Arte at the Istituto D'arte Ceramica of Civita Castellana in 1980, in Italy, McBett
graduated from Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome in Set Design in 1984. In the 1990's she studied
physical theatre to enhance her visual art, training from renowned international directors,
performing and producing in interactive and theatre events and festivals. She moved to Ireland in
1998 where she started directing her own projects. In her studio SHE-D (formerly The Shed) in
Dublin, focusing on the Inner and International City, she curated over 200 interactive events
engaging the local context, based on sustainability and internationality, generating widely followed
endeavours.
Further information contact:
The Ivy House, 114 Upper Drumcondra Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
www.theivyhouse.ie info@theivyhouse.ie Tel: 01 8375385
McBett
www.mcbett.ie