Archive for June, 2009
Hannah Starkey
Photographer Hannah Starkey explores chance encounters between women by using actors to restage and construct complex, yet seemingly fleeting, images. Starkey, who was born in Belfast and studied in Scotland and England, suggests narratives based on personal impressions of the shifting structures and values of contemporary society. The IMMA exhibition covers her work from 1999 and it is neatly juxtaposed against a selection of her earlier work. A publication will accompany this exhibition with an essay by British photographic critic, Val Williams.
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David Helfgott
It’s almost four years since the film ‘Shine’ made a global star out of this mentally disturbed piano maestro, and it seems that he’s been touring the world ever since. Whether this is a tragic case of exploitation or hard-cash payback for all those years of purgatory is open to debate. Helfgott’s repertoire is sure to contain a few crowd-pleasers from the film, including ‘The Rach’ and, on the evidence of his past visits to Tokyo, you can expect an evening of sublime musical entertainment, punctuated by the occasional odd lapse of concentration.
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