Ammemorium: Samuel Wylie Windrim 18th April 1890 - 8th April 1955, A Forgotten Rebel’s Tale.
Citation Summary:
A new perspective on the Irish 1916 Rising. Curation, historical research, new history painting - Hyatt, J. (2017) Ammemorium: Samuel Wylie Windrim 18th April 1890 - 8th April 1955, A Forgotten Rebel’s Tale, 9 December – 17 January 2016/17, The Granary, Limerick; Whitaker Art Gallery and Museum, Rossendale, 30 September – 27 November 2017. Hyatt, J. (2017). Poetry by Windrim, S. Ammemorium: Samuel Wylie Windrim 18th April 1890 - 8th April 1955, A Forgotten Rebel’s Tale, edited book, published 1 September, 2016. 44 pages. Essays by Hyatt, J., (pp.36-44 and episodic text), Windrim, S., and Barber, F. Righton Press. ISBN: 978-1-910029-21-3.
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
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- 32JHYA4
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- T - Other
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- Location
- The Granary, Limerick
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- Multi Component Output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- December
- Year
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
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- Additional information
- Ammemorium investigated an all-but forgotten episode leading up to the Irish 1916 Easter Rising. Multiple (primary and secondary) historical sources were examined as evidence and an account was pieced together from the fabric of interweaving modes of discourse including official accounts, military eye-witness testimony and family aural histories. The works situated the struggle as a wider cultural construction of nationalism and employed a rich vein of myth and fantasy alongside documentary. Historian, Fionna Barber’s, introduction utilises historical knowledge from Hyatt’s research and corroborates, ‘There is no single “truth” of what actually happened… it is within this flickering dance of certainty and conjecture that painting and poetry situate themselves as a further means of enquiry, speculation and interpretation’. Two cousins collaborated: Hyatt, as author and artist, with Irish poet, Sam Windrim. The result is six original paintings accompanied by Windrim’s poems as exhibition; a designed, authored and edited book with contributing essay; and public lectures (Limerick/Manchester). The project dissemination design, as serial, echoed turn of the century episodic adventure tales. Hyatt’s paintings, as extrapolated in his essay, refer to the history of European history painting – Masaccio, David, Goya - and ask, ‘Is history painting still possible in the 21st century’? The research helped shift emphasis away from the Rising in Dublin to communicate a fresh view of how, across Ireland, people were involved in preparations. It contributed new material to Limerick Museum and Archives’ centennial exhibition, ‘They Dreamed and are Dead: Limerick 1916’ (15 March 2016), Limerick City Hall. It also referenced W.B.Yeats and other prime movers in the construction of Irish identity, the role of women in the struggle, and the importance of the international WWI context. As Barber says, ‘ultimately this acts as a reminder of the significance of the Rising within a broader context of European history’.
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