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 will have a major solo exhibition at London's Chisenhale Gallery in October 2007. Recent solo exhibitions include Towards a Polar Sea at Frith Street Gallery and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds in 2005. Her major video installation 'The Silver Bridge' was shown at Dublin's Irish Museum of Modern Art earlier this year 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 Stedilijk van Abbe Museum, 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, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm as well as in numerous private collections.

Now available, from Frith Street Books
JAKI IRVINE : Towards a Polar Sea
A special artist's book, which explores further John Franklin's quest for the North West Passage. Published to celebrate the occasion of Irvine's exhibition of the same title at Frith Street Gallery in 2005.
Towards a Polar Sea book

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BIOGRAPHY

1966
Born Dublin

1989
BA in Fine Art / Sculpture National College of Art and Design, Dublin

1994
MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London

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