{"id":17592,"date":"2019-07-19T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2019-07-19T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:51:03","slug":"summer-school-to-feature-remarkable-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2019\/07\/summer-school-to-feature-remarkable-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer School to feature remarkable art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The John Hewitt Summer School is back at The Market Place Theatre in Armagh, and as ever, will feature stunning and accessible visual art.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acclaimed journalist Malachi O\u2019Doherty will be\nexhibiting a brand new photographic exhibition, \u2018India: Faces and Scenes\u2019,\nsupported by Andras Hotels. O\u2019Doherty, who lived in India for four years in the\n1970\u2019s, returned for the first time in January this year as a Major Artist\nfunded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. His main project was to\nresearch a book, but he took cameras with him and brought back striking images\nof people and places. These include scenes from the cremation grounds at the\nGanges, a market place in Kolkata and portraits of people he met at random.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malachi O\u2019Doherty is better known as a writer and\nbroadcaster. His eighth book will be published this summer, \u2018Fifty Years On\u2019, a\nreflection on change in Northern Ireland since the start of the Troubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Doherty says \u201cI have always had cameras with me\nbut there is that demarcation in journalism that writing is one job and taking\nthe pictures is another, and there is a lot of sense to that.\u201d He brought\ncameras with him when, in January, he went back to Brij Ghat, a pilgrim town on\nthe Ganges. \u201cI walked along the Ganges and saw the cremation fires. First I\nphotographed them a bit sneakily then walked closer and one family invited me\nto take pictures of the body being prepared, a woman. Her hands and bangles\nwere exposed, and they spread incense over her and then piled grasses and logs\non top of her and, after prayers, set her alight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malachi says he isn\u2019t seeking to tell any\nparticular story about India, \u201cI just responded to what struck me. In one\nseries of pictures of Sikh men in the Punjab I just saw this man with a rugged\nface and turban and thought he could be from any century at all and I asked him\nif I could take his picture and he stood there and let me do it.\u201d In Kolkata he\nwalked through the fish market and photographed beggars, workmen and basically\nanybody who caught his eye. \u201cI am not saying this is a statement about India. I\nmake my statements in words. Photography for me is not my assertion about\nanything, it is my response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition, \u2018India: Faces and Scenes\u2019, is\nlaunched on Wednesday 24 July at  4.45pm by Lord Diljit Rana, MBE, Baron\nof Malone, who is one of the \u2018faces\u2019. The exhibition continues at The Market\nPlace until Saturday 7 September, giving ample opportunity to view these\nstunning photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second exhibition of the Summer School, is the\nsuperb \u2018Blood Horses\u2019. Artist Paddy Lennon from Wexford and poet Moyra\nDonaldson from Co Down both have horses in their blood. The exhibition and\nlimited edition book, \u2018Blood Horses\u2019, is the result of their collaboration, and\nreflects not only both artists\u2019 mastery of their medium, but also their\nlifelong experience with all things equine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lennon\u2019s paintings combine with Donaldson\u2019s poetry\nto evoke the history of our human relationship with horses. Central to the book\nis the story of the three Arab stallions that were the founding fathers of the\nmodern thoroughbred, The Byerley Turk, The Darley Arabian and the Godolphin\nBarb. All three stallions have fascinating stories and the Byerley Turk has\nIrish connections, winning at Downpatrick Races before being ridden at the\nBattle of the Boyne by his owner, Captain Robert Byerley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paintings and poems also reflect the influence\nthat horses have in the lives of those who work with them and ride them – the\nglories and tragedies of this relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\nkeep up-to-date with the latest news at the Market Place Theatre, you can\nfollow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com\/marketplacearmagh<\/a>)\nand Twitter (www.twitter.com\/mptarmagh<\/a>) where you will\nfind all the latest information, special offers and video previews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The John Hewitt Summer School is back at The Market Place Theatre in Armagh, and as ever, will feature stunning and accessible visual art. Acclaimed journalist Malachi O\u2019Doherty will be exhibiting a brand new photographic exhibition, \u2018India: Faces and Scenes\u2019, supported by Andras Hotels. O\u2019Doherty, who lived in India for four years in the 1970\u2019s, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17594,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions\/17594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}