Artist: Paul Seawright

Anxious Landscape - selected works from the 1980's & 1990's

29th November 2008 - 10th January 2009

Anxious Landscape was an exhibition reflecting on work by Paul Seawright with a particular focus on his exploration of aspects of the political situation in Northern of Ireland. Anxious Landscape significantly contributed to the Golden Thread Gallery's exhibition programme's comprehensive investigation into the construction of representations of post-war Northern Ireland.

The exhibition examined a sense of how Seawright has responded to the heavily mediated story of the 'Troubles' by producing photographic investigations that have contributed alternative interpretations to the depictions of Northern Ireland in the national and international newspapers. The exhibition offers the viewer an opportunity reflect on the journey taken by Seawright in the 1980's & 1990's "through the physical landscape of his native city, mapping out the cultural, political and social divides that exist in the mind of its inhabitants."