Settlement by Anthony Haughey: review by Fintan O’Toole for The Irish Times
Anthony Haughey’s photographic installation Settlement, currently exhibiting at The Copper House Gallery, was reviewed by Fintan O’Toole in the Weekend Review section of The Irish Times on Saturday 12th November 2011. The article entitled Ireland in ruins: the height of folly, the depths of misery expands on the Settlement ideology referenced in the speech given by Fintan O’Toole at the launch of this exhibition on 26th October 2011. Counterpointing the tragic grandeur of follies, 18th century monuments to foolishness as a parallel narrative to the spectral presence of Ireland’s ghost estates, O’Toole commends Haughey’s artistic process in capturing ’the Celtic Tiger twilight’. O’Toole surmises that Anthony Haughey’s work is a ‘positive political response to the world of negative equity, ghost estates and Nama’.
Included in The Irish Times article was a Settlement QR code, when scanned by smartphone linked the reader to a video of the Settlement exhibition at The Copper House Gallery.
The exhibition runs until 25th November, admission is free and all are welcome.
