Jaki Irvine is an Irish contemporary visual artist, specialising in music and video installations, and a novelist. She shares time between Dublin and Mexico City.

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Art in America ''Art in America'' is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It i ...

writes: "Her works manage to wear their own artifice openly, even awkwardly, without becoming reductively trite or archly postmodern. They seduce us even as they reveal the tricks of their seduction. This is the beguiling—and redeeming—paradox of her art." Her practice is considered difficult to define, however "music has been an important component of Irvine’s work", a recent example of this type of work includes the lauded ''If the Ground Should Open.'' It was commissioned "for the centenary of the

Easter Rising The Easter Rising ( ga, Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the a ...

and, specifically, the subsequent understated role of women in the rebellion" at the

Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art ( ga, Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann) also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. Located in Kilmainham, Dublin, the Museum pr ...

. This installation included many videos of musicians and singers performing scores composed by Irvine. She has used neon in some of her work. In her film installations she implements

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and

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, weaving real events with fictitious narratives.

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She represented

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at the

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in 1997 with Alastair Mac Lennan. In 2013 she wrote a novel, ''Days of Surrender'', a fictional account of women in the

. Irvine elaborated on the book through a video, music, and photography installation commissioned by the

and shown also at Frith Street Gallery in 2016, called ''If the Ground Should Open''. In 2018, her work was exhibited in ''Dwelling Poetically: Mexico City, a case study'', curated by Chris Sharp in Melbourne, Australia. Irvine's solo exhibition, ''Ack Ro’'', shown at the Kerlin, opened in January 2020 and features 28 neon signs, using lyrical fragments from

Neil Diamond Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has had ten No. 1 singles on the Hot 100 and Adul ...

’s song Cracklin’ Rosie, as well as a number of video works. Irvine is a member of

Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association of artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers with support from the country's Arts Council. Membership, which is by invitation from current member ...

, is represented by the

Kerlin Gallery Kerlin Gallery is a contemporary commercial art gallery in Dublin, Ireland. History Originally opened in 1988, the gallery's current space was designed in 1994 by architect John Pawson. It is located in central Dublin and has 3,600 square feet ...

(Dublin) and Frith Street Gallery (London), and has works in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Bibliography

* Irvine, Jaki. ''Days of surrender''. Ventnor, Isle of Wight: Copy Press, 2013. * Irvine, Jaki, Michael Newman, and Sarah Glennie. ''The square root of minus one is plus or minus i''. Milano New York City: Charta, 2008. * Cross, Dorothy, et al. ''Leaves and papers 1-6 : a Gallery 3 project''. Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2008. ISBN 9781905397099 * Irvine, Jaki. ''Jaki Irvine : plans for forgotten works : 2 July - 2 October 2005 : Gallery 4 Henry Moore Institute''. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2005. * Irvine, Jaki. ''Towards a polar sea [published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Frith Street Gallery, London, September - October, 2005''. London: Frith Street Books, 2005. * Nelson, Mike, and Jaki Irvine. ''Mike Nelson : extinction beckons''. London: Matt's Gallery, 2000. ISBN 0907623344

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Frith Street Gallery

Kerlin Gallery

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Irish contemporary artists Living people Year of birth uncertain Irish women artists Artists from Dublin (city) 1966 births {{Ireland-artist-stub 21st-century Irish women artists

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