Frith Street Gallery

b. 1966, Dublin, Ireland

Overheard conversations and human incidents, casually observed, often form the starting point for Jaki Irvine’s work. She weaves these real events with fictitious narratives to produce haunting super 8, 16mm films and videos. Her work makes use of the potential discontinuity between moving image, musical score and narrator to undermine any sense of linear narrative. Irvine’s work suggests the fragmented mysterious and often absurd nature of the human condition.

Jaki Irvine’s most recent UK solo exhibition In A World Like This was staged at London’s Chisenhale Gallery in late 2007. Other solo exhibitions include Towards a Polar Sea at Frith Street Gallery and Plans for Forgotten Works at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds in 2006. Her video installation The Silver Bridge was shown recently at Dublin’s Irish Museum of Modern Art. Irvine has shown at the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin and represented Ireland in the 1997 Venice Biennale. She has been exhibited in group shows at the Centrum voor Hegendaagse Kunst, Maastricht, Kunsthalle Bern, and the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Her film Eyelashes was shown in One Hundred Years of Artists’ Films at Tate Britain in 2003, while a more recent work, Actress was shown as part of the Art Now series also at Tate Britain. Her work is included in the collections of the Arts Council of England, Tate Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm as well as in numerous private collections.

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