BEYOND LEAVING
Beyond Leaving looks for a prolonged period at a particular group of people who emigrated from Ireland during the financial downturn (2010-2016). The work was shown as a multimedia piece in the National Photographic Archive of Ireland in
2016-17.
It asked the question what is the distance between expectation and reality for the recent Irish
emigrant. Following on from the study it would appear that the jump into the unfamiliar can be impossible to anticipate and only those who have emigrated repeatedly can have realistic
expectations, otherwise depending on how things play out you will always be either surprised, disappointed, or perhaps both. Beyond Leaving
takes its place in a linear suite of works. It follows on from the Leaving Dublin series and once more follows its conventions of composition pose and lighting. It shares some of the intimate surroundings and possessions of the collaborators with the audience before making the jump to a straight on confrontational head and shoulders portrait, whose large size sets out to confront the audience and as an extension society, with its reality. It demands acceptance of this time and this chapter of emigration as truths. The twin goals of presenting my work from both a realist and symbolist viewpoint combines to lift these works into a performative and fictive place, the work as a whole an obvious construct, yet, because of its clearly collaborative nature and its embeddedness in the hard facts of
the day, its truths are there for all to see and
identify with.
Beyond Leaving publication
8 page newsprint doc
Aoife Mc Monagle
Beyond Leaving Portrait
Graham Martin at home
Beyond Leaving environmental portrait
Moriarty The Immigrant Cat
Beyond leaving Portrait
Seb, Sean, Astrid, Leiah, Chicago, U.S.A.
Beyond Leaving Environmental Portrait
Graham Martin Portrait
Beyond Leaving Portrait
Aoife's Cat, Toronto
Beyond Leaving portrait.
Aoife Mooney
Beyonfd Leaving Portrait
Sean's Rugger Jersey
Beyond Leaving
Beyond Leaving Show, Gallery
National Photographic Archive Gallery, Dublin
Nina Scott
Beyond Leaving Portrait
Aoife Mooney and Dog,
Beyond Leaving Environmental Portrait
Aoife Mooney's Garden
Beyond Leaving, Personal Space
Sarah- Maria Griffin
Beyond Leaving Portrait
Brian O'Neill. Dolly mount
Beyond Leaving Environmental Portrait
Sèan Ô Dàlaigh, Chicago
Beyond Leaving Portrait
Brian O'Neill's glass angel
Beyond Leaving Personal objects
Tom Scott, Portrait
Beyond Leaving portrait
Graham Ford, England
Leia Uî Dhàlaigh, Chicago
Beyond Leaving Portrait
Aoife Mc Monagle
Beyond Leaving Environmental Portrait
Graham Ford, England
Beyond Leaving Portrait
Graham Martin's Mantle
Beyond Leaving Personal Objects
Scott Family, Wicklow
Beyond Leaving Environmental Portrait