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Abstract
Midnight Feast is a major institutional solo exhibition, held in the Tall Gallery of The Mac (2023). The works on display (paintings, sculpture, collage) recontextualised ideas relating to landscape and classical mythology, repositioning visual tropes within a back garden in West Belfast. Wallace's work spotlights marginal narratives from the years of conflict in the North and her practice makes visual the surreal and the banal existence of life in an emergency housing estate at that time. While so-called 'troubles art' privileges a masculine reading of public space and the theatre of war, Wallace is concerned with recovering cultural identities that are pictured within an 'aesthetics of smallness'. This relates to the experiences of mothers and children, confined to the home and back garden during the conflict. Wallace's art works articulate a surreal alternative landscape which contrasts with the normative depiction of bleak urban spaces. Midnight Feast offers a dreaming space of shadows, fruit, body parts and bizarre garden ornaments. There is joy and laughter in this space and there is also anxiety and dread.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Belfast |
Publisher | Metropolitan Arts Centre |
Media of output | Film |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 6 Apr 2023 |
Keywords
- Painting
- Belfast
- conflict
- feminine
- Landscape
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Painter to Painter
Wallace, L. (Speaker) & O'hEocha, M. (Speaker)
29 Jun 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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In Conversation; Sinead Morrisey and Louise Wallace
Wallace, L. (Speaker) & Morrisey, S. (Speaker)
10 Aug 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Black Bungalow: oil on canvas 152 x 122 cm 2022-2023
Wallace, L. (Artist), 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
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Golden Delicious: oil on canvas 64 x 53 cm 2022
Wallace, L. (Artist), 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact
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Louise Wallace, Midnight Feast: Essay by Riann Coulter
Wallace, L. (Artist) & Coulter, R., 31 Aug 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
Open AccessFile72 Downloads (Pure)
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Ascending Light interview with Josephine Zentner, Jackson's art blog 21.08.2024
Wallace, L. (Recipient), 30 Apr 2024
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