Online portfolio of Anne Maree Barry

<h1>www.annemareebarry.com</h1> <h2>online portfolio of Anne Maree Barry</h2> Anne Maree Barry (Cork, 1979) works as an artist and filmmaker in Dublin. She exhibits her work both in galleries and at film festivals. Anne Maree graduated from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland in 2004 with an MFA in Media/Virtual Realities, having already gained a BA in Fine Art Sculpture from The Limerick School of Art and Design. At the Darklight Film Festival 2006 her video Covered Road was the winner of Best Irish Short. Covered Road has toured worldwide most recently at ISAFF Open Cinema Festival, St. Petersberg and can also be seen at Platforma Video Festival, Athens in late 2007.She was recently awarded artist in residence at Studio 468, Rialto, Dublin by Common Ground. This will begin in September 2007 and end in May 2008. Here she will work on her first collaborative project with The Rialto Twirlers.My earlier practice focused on still photographs but has progressively developed into work that uses both photography and digital video. I was editing still photographs within a video editing programme and as a result projecting the final work as a digital video. It was a natural progression to begin working with moving image/video. This work has progressed furthermore by utilising layers that are site specific to the space I am engaged with. This involves capturing illusions in a space that at first glance appears digitally manipulated, selecting locations that have a previous history within it and by creating certain narratives relating to that chosen space. The result of this layering is video works with a transient quality that are projected digitally either as part of an installation or in a cinema environment.These Pictures Are Not Sold Separately (2006) is a series of works I completed at a residency at The Digital Hub, Dublin. It combined slide transparencies presented in light boxes and an accompanying short. The research for These Pictures Are Not Sold Separately made connections with early cinema and local events that happened in Dublin around that period. I chose the year 1901 as the film trade magazine The Showman listed the documentary Toilers of the Deep with the following announcement: These Pictures Are Not Sold Separately. At this time, it was customary to project a combination of documentary slides and films. My preparatory work for ‘finding’ a story in 1901 was to examine newspaper articles from that period. As I was documenting Vat-houses that were once used by Guinness by chance I found a disturbing article about a former Guinness factory worker. Parts of this article became the narrative for These Pictures Are Not Sold Separately. Selected Exhibitions 2007 Upcoming Platfoma Video Festival, Athens, GreeceSafe, 25 Temple Lane South, DublinWeather Permitting - Various Locations, Ireland ISAFF Open Cinema Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia POW, OPW, St. Stephens Green, Dublin Screenshow, The Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford 2007 Enso-Darklight Open Air Experimental Cinema , Galway Temple Bar Film Festival, Filmbase, Dublin Witness, Studio Six, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin Boston Underground Film Festival,Boston,U.S.A. CEAD in China, 411 Galleries, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China Screenshow, Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2006 Xmass the Spot, Draiocht, Blancherstown, Dublin Dublin Arts and Electronic Festival, Filmbase, Dublin Darklight Tour – Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny The Darklight Film Festival, Irish Film Institute, Dublin Captured, The Digital Hub, Dublin Black Implication Flooding, Colony Gallery, Birmingham, U.K. 2005 Offside Live: The Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin CcRevolver: Mardyke Complex, Cork The Urban Condition: Meeting House Square, Dublin. 2004 C2 1995 – 2005: The Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork The Darklight Digital Film Festival, The Digital Hub, Dublin 24: The Digital Hub, Dublin 2003 ManiFest: Atalante, Gothenburg, Sweden 2002 Sculpture 02, Limerick School of Art and Design 2001 Pulse Underground – Site-specific work, Limerick Branded: Half Moon Theatre, Cork. Awards 2007 Travel and Training Award, The Arts Council 2006 Best Irish Short, The Darklight Film Festival, Dublin.Residencies 2007 Studio 468 Residency Award, St. Andrew’s Community Centre, Rialto, Dublin Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry