Featured Artist
Willie Doherty
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Willie Doherty was born in Derry in 1959 and he continues to live and work in that city. He first came to prominence in the 1980s when he exhibited a series of powerful photographic works overlaid with text. These works, like all his subsequent photographic and video work, explore the complexities of living in a divided community, especially in his native Northern Ireland. Much of his work refers to an undercurrent of fear, oppression and uncertainty that for many was a daily experience of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Doherty has twice been shortlisted for the Turner Prize, once in 1994 and again in 2003.
Northern Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2007
Commissioner: Hugh Mulholland
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the British Council are delighted to use the occasion of the world’s most prestigious visual art festival - the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007 (June 7th – November 2007) - to acknowledge the significant contribution Willie Doherty has made in raising the international profile of Northern Ireland’s visual arts.
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Willie Doherty will present three video installations at the Venice Biennale 2007: ‘Closure’ (2005), ‘Passage’ (2006) and a new piece especially commissioned for the festival, called ‘Ghost Story’ (2007).
For more information about Willie Doherty’s participation at the 2007 Venice Biennale, click here.
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