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Colin Darke’s work has for many years been informed by his interest in Marxism, primarily Karl Marx’s base and superstructure theory and Bertolt Brecht’s principles and practice of Epic Theatre.
This new installation, filling the vast space of the Upper Gallery, will continue to develop Darke’s recent formal change in direction towards creating floor-based pieces and will consist of the text of Marx’s ‘The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte' written onto various objects which refer to Alfred Jarry's play 'Ubu Roi'. The work will extend out from the walls of the gallery in a spiral curving around the space, beginning with 99 marble tiles and ending with 666 apples carefully positioned on the floor.
About the Artist
About the Artist
Colin Darke
Originally from England, Colin Darke has lived in the north of Ireland for twenty-five years. He studied at Goldsmiths College, London, from 1977 to 1980 and recently returned to study, completing his PhD at the University of Ulster between 2007 and 2010. Darke has exhibited extensively, in Ireland and beyond. Group shows have included Tracings, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (1998), Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000), Venice Biennale (2003), Busan Biennale, South Korea (2004), God and Goods (Italy, 2008), Imagined Communities, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2013) and Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2013). He has held solo shows in London, Belfast, Derry, Dublin, Drogheda, Oakville, and Livorno.
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Meet the Judges
Originally from England, Colin Darke has lived in the north of Ireland for twenty-five years. He studied at Goldsmiths College, London, from 1977 to 1980 and recently returned to study, completing his PhD at the University of Ulster between 2007 and 2010. Darke has exhibited extensively, in Ireland and beyond. Group shows have included Tracings, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (1998), Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000), Venice Biennale (2003), Busan Biennale, South Korea (2004), God and Goods (Italy, 2008), Imagined Communities, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2013) and Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2013). He has held solo shows in London, Belfast, Derry, Dublin, Drogheda, Oakville, and Livorno.
