About
about laura mcgovern;
Dublin based photographer/artist and reviewer (please refer to links section to view reviews).Graduated from a B.A in Photography in 2007 and also obtained a qualification in graphic design in 2003.
Solo Exhibitions:
Strangers to Slumber
The Bernard Shaw, Portobello, Dublin 2, May/June, 2008
Group exhibitions:
'Sex, Guise and maybe some videotape' curated by Mark St. John Ellis, The Cross Gallery, Francis St, Dublin, 2009
'The Winding Stair' book competition, 'The Darkness Nourishes It' was selected and exhibited as part of Culture Night '08, The Winding Stair, Ormond Quay, Dublin, 2008
'Worship', as part of selection by art collective Synth Eastwood, 4 Dame Lane, Dublin, 2007
'InSide Out', as part of selection by art collective Synth Eastwood, 4 Dame Lane, Dublin, 2007
'RDS student art awards', RDS, Dublin, 2007
'Photoworks' National Photographic Archive, 2007
'Portent', the Back Loft @ La Cathedral, Dublin, 2006
'Stop violence against women', for Amnesity International, Filmbase, Dublin, 2005
Reviews:
'A new wave of Irish art' by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, june 27, 2007
"The shows in the National Photographic Archive and the Gallery of Photography were of a thoroughly professional quality and featured a range of noteworthy individual projects, some of them really ambitious. Included here Laura McGovern's The Darkness Nourishes It.
...In quite a different vein, McGovern took on the daunting challenge of responding to the fiction of cult Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, concentrating on the experience of solitude on the part of young, male protagonists. Her glittering, night-time images are eloquently atmospheric, rich and involving." - Aidan Dunne
Commissions:
Registration of Perception
Comission from the AAI (Architectural Association of Ireland)in responce to the essay 'In Here, Out There' by Dr Hugh Campbell
Collections:
Various photographic and illustrative works in private collections in Dublin and the USA.