Willie Doherty
Born in Derry in 1959, Willie Doherty began exhibiting internationally in the early 1980’s. His practice has consistently addressed the representation of landscape, territoriality, history and the rhetoric of identity; exploring their relationship to memory and subjectivity and showing such issues as contested and conflicted. Much of his early photographic work incorporated text and since the mid-90's he has increasingly worked in film and video installation. For more than 20 years Doherty’s career has played a crucial role in the development and importance of ‘the documentary turn’ in international contemporary art.Nominated twice for the Turner Prize (2003, 1994), Doherty’s work has been the subject of many solo museum shows including The Speed Art Museum, Kentucky (2011), Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2009), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2009), Lenbachhaus, München (2007), Kunstverein, Hamburg (2007), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2006), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2002). Renaissance Society, Chicago (1999) and Tate Gallery, Liverpool (1999). Group shows include Manifesta 8 (2010), 3rd Auckland Triennial (2007), Venice Biennale 2007, 2005 and 1993, Reprocessing Reality, MOMA PS.1, New York (2006), Istanbul Biennale (2003) and the Carnegie International (1999).In 2011 Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane presented a survey show 'DISTURBANCE' which premiered his acclaimed new video work ‘Ancient Ground’. The exhibition was accompanied by a new publication and is currently on show at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne. Doherty will present a new work at Documenta (13), Kassel in June 2012. www.whytes.ie
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'MESH, CROWDED FULL OF HEAVEN'S ANGELS, 1986'
- Price Realised: €4,000
- Sale: 30 September 2013
- black and white photograph
- 26.25 by 39.25in., 65.625 by 98.125cm.
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'UNCOVERING EVIDENCE THAT THE WAR IS NOT OVER III, 1996'
- Price Realised: €1,800
- Sale: 01 October 2012
- cibachrome on aluminium; (no. 3 from an edition of 3)
- 30 by 40in., 76 by 102cm.
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'WINDSCREEN FRAGMENT, 1996'
- Price Realised: €1,500
- Sale: 01 October 2012
- cibachrome on aluminium; (no. 2 from an edition of 3)
- 30 by 40in., 76 by 102cm.