Peggy Sue Amison, Director of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, has been invited by China Pingyao International Photography Festival (http://www.pipphoto.com/) and the European Photography Festival Union (http://www.festivalunion.com/) to present the work of three Irish Photographers at this prestigious festival taking place from 19 – 26 September. Additional support from Culture Ireland has helped to make this presentation of Irish photography in China possible.
Founded in 2001, the China Pingyao International Photography Festival is the world’s largest photography exhibition. Past editions of this festival have hosted many well known contemporary photographers such as Robert Frank, Annie Leibowitz and Don McCullen.
Exhibited at the festival will be works by three Irish photographers: David Farrell, Mark Curran and Seán Hillen. This will be the first exhibition of their works in China.
In addition, Peggy will give a presentation about photography in Ireland and will discuss issues affecting international curators of photography in a one day workshop along with representatives from China, England, Greece, Finland, Bratislava, Poland and other members of the European Photo Festival Union..
Exhibited at this year’s festival will be selected works of photomontages by Seán Hillen, images from Mark Curran’s well known projects including “The Breathing Factory ”and “Southern Cross” and a selection of David Farrell’s images from works “Innocent Landscapes” and “Né Vicino Né Lontano. A Lugo”.
In addition to the exhibition of Irish work, Ms. Amison has also curated a slide presentation in partnership with the European Photography Festival Union featuring work by International artists who have participated in the Artist in Residency Programme at Sirius Arts Centre. The presentation will include works from, “Tide” by South African photograph Michelle Sank, works from a documentary project in progress on fishing by French photographer Gilles Perrin and additional images by David Farrell.
Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director of Sirius Arts Centre said, “I am really pleased to be invited to promote Irish photographers to a whole new audience. It’s a great opportunity both for the Irish photographers and for Sirius Arts Centre.”
Travelling to China with Peggy Amison will be artist Séan Hillen. For more information on the artists please visit their websites at:
For more information contact Sirius Arts Centre at +353 21 481 3790
