AMELIA STEIN

Celebrating International Women’s Day, 03/03/2020 .Unveiling of Portrait Series.

RCSI Art Committee Commission of a Series of Portraits from The Winner 2018 RCSI Art Award,
A collaboration between photographer Amelia Stein RHA and 9 leading figures in the Academic Staff of  RCSI.
This body of work portrays Staff who have achieved the distinction of Dean, Professor or Director at RCSI campus,  St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland .

These contemporary photographic portraits, completed  in 2019, unveiled in 2020, are of 9 Women, Leaders in their particular areas of expertise and excellence and are a continuation of the #WomenonWalls.
The Portraits constitute the drive towards redressing the Gender Balance initiated by the inaugural ” Women on Walls”,  the installation of a series of posthumous painted portraits of Women  in 2018.

Each Woman photographed holds a particular chosen object which defines/ indicates their individual area of Expertise. The portraits were made in the Historic BoardRoom of RCSI, 123 St Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Ireland, under the watchful eyes of the Women in the posthumous Painted Portraits.
Emboldening the spirit of the mantra, “You Can’t Be What You Can’t See “.

Barbara Warren RHA, Hands. Silver Gelatin Print, 37cm x 37 cm. Printed, Paris. Guillaume Geneste

It took a century to elect the first woman artist.
It took another century to elect the first woman President.
It took a century to achieve equitable representation in the membership.

This National Gallery of Ireland/Royal Hibernian Academy collaboration will showcase women’s membership of the Royal Hibernian Academy from the election in 1923 of the first woman member, Sarah Purser, to the first woman President, Abigail O’Brien, in 2018. As part of the RHA Bicentennial celebrations, the exhibition will combine an historic survey of the past 100 years together with a presentation of work by current woman members of the Academy.

While half of the artists represented in the exhibition are living, the other half span the decades from the 1920s. The exhibition will comprise works in a variety of media, and will involve an unprecedented use of Room 21, in which Irish art from the late 17th to early 19th century is usually displayed.

The constituent works will be drawn almost exclusively from the collections of the National Gallery of Ireland and the Royal Hibernian Academy. The only exceptions to this are the small number of artists not represented in either collection. Examples of the work of this small group of artists will be on loan from other public collections in Ireland.

Curators: Dr Brendan Rooney and Dara McElligott (National Gallery of Ireland); Patrick T. Murphy and Kate McBride (RHA).

Battalion Deputy Commanding Officer. Commandant Rose-Anna White, 2019. “The Bloods ” Archival Pigment Print. 80cm x 80cm , Courtesy of the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.

Laundry . 65cm x 65 cm. Archival Pigment Print on Bamboo paper.  Courtesy of the UCC Art Collection, Cork.

Under the title Opening The Gates, the 13th edition of PhotoIreland Festival presents the most comprehensive overview on the History and Practice of Photography in Ireland to date, running 7th July to 28th August 2022 in various locations, with the main venue at The Printworks, Dublin Castle.

The Watch House. ( Teacháin a’Watch )

The Politics of Place explores one of the defining obsessions of our national life, the notion of place. For a people so often uprooted and dispossessed, the identification of Irishness with place, with home and the ownership of land, even with the state itself, carries incredible weight. In mapping these contested territories, photographers have participated in a cultural shift that has seen our understanding of place and what it means deeply challenged. Considering how our sense of place, broadly defined, has been transformed, this exhibition addresses the profound changes that have reshaped Irish society over the last four decades, from the decline of the church to the impact of globalisation, through to ongoing crises around housing, migration, and the environment.

In moving away from traditional documentary towards more socially-engaged and inclusive ways of thinking about their medium, Irish photographers have been at the cutting-edge of contemporary trends. This exhibition has been curated to emphasise the diversity of visual and conceptual languages characteristic of recent photographic practice in Ireland. It reveals how photography has helped to interrogate what Irishness is, and also to reimagine what it might look like.
Curatorial Panel:  Lead curator: Darren Campion, Trish Lambe, Brendan Maher,

Archival Pigment Print 66cm x 80 cm

Sheepwire V  (Eagle)
Archival Pigment Print, Bamboo Paper  + coloured pencil
48.5cm x 38cm. Edition of 3 + 2 AP, Variable Edition.

Sheepwire IV   (Ballycroy )
Archival Pigment Print, Bamboo Paper  + coloured pencil
47.5cm x 38cm. Edition of 3 + 2 AP, Variable Edition.

INISK   – Chimney
Archival Pigment Print, Bamboo Paper
55cm x 36.5cm
Edition of 5, 4 available

INISK  – Wall
Archival Pigment Print, Bamboo Paper
55cm x 36.5cm
Edition of 5, 4 available

A decade of new acquisitions – many on display for the first time – in New Perspectives. The Gallery holds Ireland’s national collection of art, a collection that is constantly growing and evolving through the addition of new works. These acquisitions augment and enrich the collection for the nation.

New Perspectives includes newly acquired Irish art, Western art, portraiture, works on paper, and archival material.

Precipice: Diarmaid and Gráinne’s Bed. ( Leaba Dhiarmaid agus Gráinne ).The Knife Rock. ( Carraigh na Scine ).

Silver gelatin prints, printed Paris, Guilaume Geneste.   40 x 50 cm

Diarmaid and Gráinne’s Bed. ( Leaba Dhiarmaid agus Gráinne )

The Knife Rock. ( Carraigh na Scine )