Jackson views features of the landscape from historical and contemporary perspectives. In addition to the ordered political aspects of landscape such as roads, boundaries and fields, he identifies an equally important vernacular tradition linked with custom, adaptation and mobility. Different chapters focus on America’s agrophilia (love of horizontal spaces), stone as a building material, the mobile home, military landscape, and the origin of parks.
The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art is delighted to welcome our Student Forum cohort 2026. The Student Forum is a group of students and recent graduates who engage with The Douglas Hyde and its programming in different ways over a period of twelve months. This includes participating in reading and discussion groups, meeting […]
This month as part of the Your Gallery 3 series, we would like to thank writer and curator Pádraic E. Moore for contributing to the series via Twitter, suggesting that we look back at the 2001 exhibition of photographs by the artist Francesca Woodman (1958-1981). One of the nine iterations of the exhibition curated by […]
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