The National CollegeVisual Culture Staff
Declan Long
BA (Queens) MA (Lancaster)
Co-ordinator: MA Art in the Contemporary World
longd[AT]ncad.ie
Declan Long teaches in the areas of contemporary art and cultural theory. His current research addresses representations of the city in contemporary art, with particular reference to engagements with public space in recent art from Northern Ireland. 2007
Publications include:
The accompanying essay for Ghost Story, a new film by Willie Doherty premiered at the 52nd Venice Biennale, a special Visual Culture issue of The Irish Review co-edited with Colin Graham (Cork University Press, forthcoming) and a series of essays on recent painting from Ireland: 'Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Barrie Cooke' (Kerlin Gallery exhibition catalogue, Autumn 2007) 'Everything is Something Else: The Art of Patrick Hall', Circa, (Spring 2007); 'After Nature', in Paul McKinley: Farewell Chestnut Avenue (Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy / Nissan Art Project, 2007); 'Time in Space: Sean McSweeney's World' in Sean McSweeney: Retrospective (Sligo: Model Arts and Niland Gallery, 2007); and 'Afterimages' in Robert Armstrong: Afterimages (Dublin: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, 2007).
Other selected publications include:
'Subjective Affinities: Notes on Recent Art from Ireland' in Alabama Chrome, a new book edited by John Hutchinson that offers a unique survey of visual culture in Ireland (Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2006); several texts on emerging artists for Dogs Have No Religion: Contemporary Artists from Northern Ireland (Prague: Czech Museum of Fine Arts, 2006); 'Spaces Between and Beyond' in Ireland at Venice 2005 (Cork: Glucksman Gallery, 2005); and 'Specific Places' in Gemma Tipton (ed) Space: Architecture for Art (Dublin: Circa, 2004).
He is a board member of both the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, and Create, Ireland's national development agency for collaborative arts, as well as a member of the editorial panel for the contemporary art journal Printed Project.
