School of Fine Art
Phone: +353 1 636 4257
Email: fitzpatrickf@ncad.ie
Dr. Feargal Fitzpatrick
PhD
Head of Media
My current research project, Ireland, Landscape and Nineteenth-Century Photography, examines material that, up to now, has been dealt with largely on an empirical or canonical basis. The work is a critical-historical account of the relationships between photographic representations of place and Irish manifestations of colonialism, nationalism and capital. Through a contemporary theoretical framework (drawing on the work of Marx, Benjamin, Bhabha and Rancière), it argues that photography’s inception represents a rupture in visual culture – producing a crisis in the politics of representation – and that its consequences have been playing out through landscape imaging for 180 years. Implicated in this process are concepts of place, identity, nation and materiality – turning photographic meaning into something continually deferred, qualified and contingent on historiographical connections between images' moments of production and consumption.
Qualifications
PhD Maynooth University
MPhil Dublin Institute of Technology
BDes (Hons) National College of Art and Design
Lecturing
NCAD Fine Art Media: Head of Department, 2014 - Present
NCAD First Year Studies: Lecturer, 2005-2014
NCAD Communication Design and Digital Media: Lecturer, 2004-2005
TCD MSc. Interactive Digital Media: Adjunct Assistant Professor, 1999-2014
IADT Digital Media Lecturer, 1998-2004
IADT Fine Art: Lecturer, 1992-1993
Memberships
American Conference of Irish Studies
European Society for the History of Photography
NCAD+UCD Collaborative Working Group
NCAD Academic Council
NCAD School of Visual Culture PhD supervisory team
NCAD Appeals Committee
NCAD IT Committee
NCAD Joint Programme Committee
Papers, Presentations and Research Activities
Camera Education: Photographic Histories of Visual Literacy, Schooling, and the Imagination at the Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, England. Paper title: “Shadows on a Screen: Photographic Propaganda during the Irish Land War.” June 2020.
Camera Memoria: Seminar on the Histories of Photography at Université Paris Diderot, France. Paper title: “Contested Ground: Photographs as Clouded Memory.” June 2018.
2018 meeting of the American Conference of Irish Studies and the Canadian Conference for Irish Studies/L’Association Canadienne d’Études Irlandaises held at University College Cork. Paper title: “The Construction of Photographic Taste in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland.” June 2018
Photography / Archives / Ireland at the Dublin Institute of Technology. Paper title “Ground Lens: Henry Craigie Brewster’s Cork Calotypes.” November 2017.
Landscape: Interpretations, Relations, and Representations at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Paper title: “Contested Ground: British Power. Irish Territory.” January 2017
Inter: Photography and Architecture at the Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. Paper title “Building Resistance, Photographing Dissent.” November 2016
3rd International Conference of Photography and Theory 2014 (ICPT2014): Photography and Politics and the Politics of Photography, Nicosia, Cyprus. Paper title: “Busybody and Partisan: Irish Dissident Photography.” December 2014
2014 meeting of the American Conference of Irish Studies and the Canadian Conference for Irish Studies/L’Association Canadienne d’Études Irlandaises held at University College Dublin. Paper title: “The Politics of Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography in Ireland and the USA.” June 2014
NCAD-funded research trip to the UK – visiting five leading Art & Design Colleges to research their recruitment, diagnostic and path-finding activities in first-year studio teaching environments. September 2011
National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning. Engaging Minds Conference, NUI Galway. Paper title: “NCAD First Year Core Studies: Art and Design Studio Teaching and Assessment.” June 2011
Irish Universities Quality Board Seminar Striving to enhance the Student Experience: Implementing a Student-Centred Approach to Learning – The European Standards and Guidelines (Part 1) in Action. November 2009
NCAD symposium What Does it Take? Design, Research, Economy, Society. Speakers and panellists from 23 design companies and institutions took part. Co-organiser. April 2006
Publications
“Building Resistance, Photographing Dissent.” Inter Photo Arch: Interferences, Alcolea, Rubén A. & Jorge Tárrago (eds). Pamplona, Universidad de Navarra, 2016. 86-97.
“First Year Core Studies: Art and Design Studio Teaching and Assessment.” Engaging Minds: Proceedings of the National Academy’s Fifth Annual Conference. O’Mahony, Catherine (ed.) & Avril Buchanan. Cork: National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, 2011. 70-71.
Surfaces. Catalogue for national solo touring exhibition. Dublin: Self-published, 1995.
Press
Contributor to Source Photographic Review 2012 –2013
The Examiner, "Coming to terms with technology", Isabel Healy. May 14th 1999
Irish Times, review of Intermedia, Mark Ewart. May 2nd 1999
New Media Notes, feature interview. May 1998
Irish Times, featured image. April 21st 1998
Irish Times, Computimes, Michael Cunningham. March 23rd 1998
Sunday Tribune, "Cyber Space Gallery" article, Ciaran Carty. March 15th 1998
Irish Times, Computimes – Diary, Michael Cunningham. September 29th 1997
Irish Times, review of Surfaces, Mark Ewart. October 1995
Irish Times, review of Boyle Arts Festival, Brian Fallon. July 1995
Circa Magazine, review of Surfaces, Brian Coates. Summer 1995
Public Lectures and Talks
Lecture. “The Politics of the Image”, NCAD, October 2019
Lecture. “Photography and the Plan of Campaign, 1890”, NCAD, February 2015
Lecture. “Re-Configuring the Apollo Missions: Lunar Photography – Battlefield and Wilderness”,
PhotoIreland Festival, The Joinery, Stoneybatter. July 2010
Artist Talk. “Science, Technology and Representation”, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios. October 2002
Artist Talk. Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork. March 2002
Lecture. “Photographic Images Reconfigured”, Douglas Hyde Gallery, TCD. February 2002
Pane Discussion. Media Probe (Symposium): Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. January 2000
Artist Talk. Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny. April 1998
Panel Discussion. Flux Discussion Group, Arthouse. 1996, 1997
Artist Talks. Triskel Arts Centre, October 1995
Artist talk and workshop. City Arts Centre. January 1992
Solo Exhibitions
Resolution
A National Touring Exhibition
Monaghan County Museum. August 1997
Peacock Gallery, Craigavon. September 1997
Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny. April 1998
Surfaces
A National Touring Exhibition
Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick. July 1995
Midland Arts Resource Centre, Mullingar. August 1995
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford. September 1995
Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. October 1995
Irish Institute for European Affairs, Belgium. November 1995
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar. January 1996
Taken as Given
City Arts Centre, Dublin. January 1992.
Selected Group Exhibitions
Intermedia, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. May 2000
Intermedia, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. May 1999
Pluperfect, Arthouse, Temple Bar. November 1996
Temple Bar International Print Exhibition, Temple Bar Gallery. October 1996
Emerging Irish Artists, European Parliament Building, Brussels. July 1996
Home Exhibition, Project Arts Centre, Dublin. December 1995
Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon. July 1995
Monaghan Open Exhibition, Monaghan County Museum. May 1995
Rainy Season, Jo Rain Gallery, Dublin. December 1994
National Portrait Exhibition, Arnott's, Dublin. October 1994
L84AD8, Ormond Multimedia Centre, Dublin. September 1994
Group Show, Browne’s Gallery, Dublin. October 1992
Awards
Arts Council Touring Exhibitions Scheme Award. 1995
Arts Council/Aer Lingus Travel Award. 1995
Kingram Studios Dublin - Winners in the Cothú (now Business to Arts) Arts Sponsorship of the Year Awards for their support of the exhibition Resolution. 1998
