Midnight Feast (2022): Government Art Collection (19347)

Louise Wallace

Midnight Feast (2022): Government Art Collection (19347)

Research output: Non-textual form › Artefact

Abstract

Midnight Feast is a painting (90x75 cm oil on canvas 2022) which was purchased for the UK Gov Art collection in 2024 through the Art X-UK project. The project aims to expand the government's art collection through important purchases of regional art which are then displayed in UK embassy buildings world-wide. Midnight Feast was selected by a panel of industry experts including Maria Belshaw, CBE (Director of Tate). The collection notes on the painting state: 'Partly born out of a sense that much Northern Irish conflict art is highly masculine, often militaristic in its depiction of everyday life amid conflict, Wallace’s painting presents a radically different view of this historical period. What emerges is a vision shaped by her own memories, that is wistfully nostalgic but also deeply menacing.'

Original language	English
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2025
Event	Midnight Feast - Belfast, Northern Ireland Duration: 6 Apr 2023 → 26 Nov 2023 https://themaclive.com/exhibition/louise-wallace-midnight-feast

Keywords

painting
Troubles art
Conflict
women
domestic
landscape

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

Louise-Wallace-Midnight-FeastFinal published version, 146 KBLicence: Other

https://artcollection.dcms.gov.uk/artwork/19347/

2 Oral presentation

Painter to Painter
Wallace, L. (Speaker) & O'hEocha, M. (Speaker)
29 Jun 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
In Conversation; Sinead Morrisey and Louise Wallace
Wallace, L. (Speaker) & Morrisey, S. (Speaker)
10 Aug 2023
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

1 Digital or Visual Products
1 Exhibition

Louise Wallace, Midnight Feast: Essay by Riann Coulter
Wallace, L. (Artist) & Coulter, R., 31 Aug 2023
Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

Open Access
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Midnight Feast
Wallace, L. (Artist), 6 Apr 2023
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

Louise Wallace: Ascending Light: Interview with Josephine Zentner for the specialist art blog 'Jacksonsart Blog'.
Wallace, L.
2/08/24 → 21/08/24
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities

Oil Award, Jackson's Art Prize 2024
Wallace, L. (Recipient), 12 Apr 2024
Prize

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Midnight Feast (2022): Government Art Collection (19347)

Abstract

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Activities

Painter to Painter

In Conversation; Sinead Morrisey and Louise Wallace

Research output

Louise Wallace, Midnight Feast: Essay by Riann Coulter

Midnight Feast

Press/Media

Louise Wallace: Ascending Light: Interview with Josephine Zentner for the specialist art blog 'Jacksonsart Blog'.

Prizes

Oil Award, Jackson's Art Prize 2024

Cite this