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| Virginia Ryan | |
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Virginia Ryan, artist and writer, was born and educated in Australia and Italy, graduating from the National School of the Arts in Canberra (79), where she taught photography as a fine art medium before departing Australia for Alexandria in Egypt in 1982.She has Italian citizenship since 1981.Ryan has collaborated widely with artists in Africa, Europe and South America, and is founder of the 'Foundation for Contemporary Art' in Accra, West Africa.(www.fcaghana.org) |
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Multi-media and multi- sensorial Art projects concerned with land, memory and identity. |
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\'Topographies of the Dark\'
2007 |
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| From a larger series of 'sculptural paintings' with the same title.
Mixed media on wood, created in Ghana, West Africa, with a multitude of abandoned flip-flops, sand and black paint. Suggests a contemporary evocation of Dogon Sculptures. The inspiration for sound improvisations by he same name by avantguard jazz musicians 'Accra Trane Station' found at
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Detail 'Castaways'
2004-2007 |
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| from a series of two thousand ,recently exhibited at the Whitworth gallery in Manchester. For information on this large-scale multi-sensorial project, please check 'Castaways ' at www.virginiaryan.com and at www.voxlox.net. Minimum sales of 9 individual 'Castaways' to make a set.Price per individual artwork |
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\'Living Go(l)d\'
2004 |
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| 25 Digital portraits of African Men, from all walks of life, from Ghana - Two sets created. One set on permanent exhibition at the Certosa Di Padula in Italy.Remaining set framed in hand-made wooden frames also from Ghana in West Africa. |
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Elmina
2004-2007 |
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| A contemplation of place.Exhibited in Italy and Africa, in catalogue.Original Image taken at slave fort memorial in West Africa,printed in Ghana. |
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| Ryan obtained a post graduate diploma in Art Therapy from the Edinburgh University Settlement School Of Art Therapy in 1995. Since 1982 Ryan lived in Italy, Egypt, Brazil, Ex-Yugoslavia and Scotland and Ghana, collaborating and exhibiting with artists in all these countries. In the past Ryan's work has been concerned with issues such as dispossession, exile and homelessness, which she linked to her own peripatetic career and life of travel, and to the need for a spiritual and psychological 'place' within everyone of us. These issues, constant in her art-making became overt during the years from 1990 to late 1993 when she lived in Belgrade and witnessed the breakup of the former Yugoslavia. Between 1996 and 1998, after moving to Italy, she also taught workshops with Italian and foreign students in the Umbria region and collaborated, also on a curatorial level, on a number of exhibitions such as 'Trevi Occhio Giovane' (97) at the Flash Art Museum and ‘Viaggatori Sulla Flaminia' (98). Works later completed in Italy included the photographic/collage series 'Cancelli Walks' (97) where images of a young boy carrying flowers hint at quattrocento angels. The boy is her own son and the flowers were collected in the remote hamlet of Cancelli, regarded by many local people as a sacred site. The idea of walking is intrinsic to this piece as it is to the various shoe installations for which she has become known. For the exhibition 'Travellers Along The Flaminia' in the summer of 1998 Ryan created an installation entitled ‘One Hundred Steps' consisting of one hundred pairs of shoes donated by the people of Trevi, a hill-town in Umbria where she lives. Each contributor was asked to write the story of his/her shoes, thus creating a collective poem which was also an exercise in contemporary anthropology. After this, photos of the shoes were hand-manipulated, exhibited separately and a series of ‘livre d'artiste' were created using both the words and images from the installation. In 2000, the association Orfini Nurmesister and the Umbria region, in collaboration with the artist, produced a bilingual English-Italian catalogue of photos and text of this project. The shoe, transitional object par excellence, is repeated in other works, such as the terracotta series produced in late 1998, entitled 'Child Soldiers'. In these Ryan re-appropriates the once-fired white baby shoes from the ceramic workshops in the Italian town of Deruta (used to hold confetti at baptisms) and transforms them into the remains of imaginary infant warriors. In Ryan's world fragility becomes a symbol of resistance, in opposition to the arrogance of power. Ryan uses a variety of techniques in her art - from drawing, acrylic painting on wood to terracotta, photography and sound installations etc. She has collaborated with musicians and composers such as Prof. Nigel Osborne at the University of Edinburgh (93), and Italian actors Pino Grossi and Graziano Sirci to create time-based works which occur alongside her sculptural or pictorial works. In the year 1998 Virginia Ryan began a large new body of work based on the female figure, the first part of it being shown in 2000, in the international exhibition 'Autoredonna' in Livorno (invited to represent Australia) and later in the year under the heading 'Woman looking at Woman’ at the Galleria Miralli in Viterbo, Italy. She collaborated with Berlin based artist Niels Betori on a video piece 'Richiamo' and in late 2000 completed, in collaboration with Tim Ryan at Trackdown studios in Sydney, Australia, a video sequence entitled 'Undermasks' In September 2000 'Where the Cypress Rises-An Australian artist in Umbria' based on her experience of living in Italy was published by Lothian press, Australia (www.amazon.com). WORKS FROM AFRICA: In 2001 Ryan began writing a sequel telling of encounters and contemporary life in Accra, Ghana, which was published as a series of short stories entitled ‘Strangers in Accra’ by Afram Press, in Ghana, in 2004. In the same year, a visual installation, a collaborative body of 100 pieces of work executed with the sign-writers of Accra, Ghana, entitled ‘Landing in Accra’ was first exhibited at the National Museum of Accra. Speakers included Dr Achille Bonito Oliva and Ghanaian poet and intellectual Dr Abena P. A. Busia. In January 2002 Ryan curated the first outdoor exhibition ‘Art In the Garden' with leading Ghanaian and Togolese sculptors at the Italian Embassy residence in Ghana - a successful attempt to bring together more experimental art than could at the time be found in the city's galleries, and the lush tropical vegetation of West Africa, which has now been repeated throughout the city and has become one f the most popular recurrent art events. In September 2002 she jointly curated, with Enrico Mascelloni, the exhibition of Ghanaian Artists entitled 'Almighty God and the Apostles of Accra' at the Rocca di Umbertide centre for Contemporary Art in Central Italy, and in 2003 'Escape and Memory' at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, in collaboration with UNHCR. A series of Installations and paintings concerned with the illusive seductiveness of Gold and the ecology of the West African coastline, once called the Gold Coast, entitled ‘Seven Steps from Anomabo’ was completed in May 2004 and first exhibited at the Dubois Centre in Accra. In Italy, June 2004, she participated in the exhibition Vanitas curated by Achille Bonito Oliva the Certosa of Padula in Italy, with a series of portraits of Ghanaian men entitled ‘Living Gold’. Other major projects in 2004 included, in collaboration with the Ippogrifo Azzuro Association in Milan, an exhibition and archive of childrens drawings entitled ‘Wide Open_ Ghana through Children’s Eyes’ , co-curated with Luigia Versolatti. Ryan has completed a work-in-progress entitled ‘Exposures- A White Woman in Africa’, a photographic series exploring aspects of neo-colonialism in which uses autobiographical visual representations, her own life as a white woman in Africa, as the subject matter. The photo essay and text (written by reknown anthropolgist Steve Feld), were published in the biennial journal of Social Science ‘Voci’ of the Sapienze University in Rome, in Autumn 2006, followed by a special lecture by Feld in the Anthropology Department of Harvard University in October 2006. There have been a number of exhibitions and symposia in Africa, Italy and USA , the last one in November 2007 at the Peck School of Art in Wisconsin.For catalogue please see www.voxlox.net . She has been working on ‘The Castaways Project’, a ‘multisensorial installation’ concerned with memory and environmental data from the coastline of West Africa, once point of departure for the slave trade. In collaboration with American sound artist Steven Feld a documentary film was produced on the project, entitled ‘Were water meets Land’. Feld also produced a documentary sound environment to accompany the visual installation, an hour long c.d. entitled ‘Anomabo Shoreline'( also available online at www.voxlox.net). The first major show of this multi-sensorial installation was in the Whitworth Museum in the city of Manchester. Recent Italian projects include INTRAMOENIA EXTRA ARTE in Puglia, with Achille Bonito Oliva. Here Ryan collaborated with female embroiderers from the south of Italy. Results can be seen on her website and at the Eclettica_cultura dell’arte website. Updated November 2007 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1981 Solander Gallery, Canberra, Australia / 1982 Montmatre Gallery, Canberra, Australia / 1983 L'Atelier, Alexandria, Egypt / 1985 Istituto Italiano, Cairo, Egypt - Cavafy Hall, Greek Consulate, Alexandria, Egypt / 1986 Graffiti-Now Atelier, Verona, Italy / 1989 'Chasing shadows' Museum of Contemporary Art, Curitiba, Brazil / 1990 Museum of Art of Joinville, Santa Caterina, Brazil - Anita Malfatti Cultural Space, Curitiba, Brazil / 1992 'Stealing Fire' Tabula Rasa Cultural Association, Rome / 1993 'Home, Europe' Demarco Art Foundation, Edinburgh, Scotland / 1994 'Four Banners For Four Poems' Tron Kirk, Festival of Edinburgh - 'Visionfest' Picton Library, Central Library, Liverpool, England - 'Floresta' The View Gallery, Liverpool - 'Recent Works' Norrie-Toch Studios, Gullane Scotland - 'Artist For a Week' Collective Gallery, Edinburgh / 1995 'Mixed-media Works' Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh / 1996 'Sosta' Sale Clitunno, Trevi, Italy / 1998 'Open Books' Geografica Studio, Augsburg, Germany / 1999 'Atopia' Il Politecnico Gallery, Rome / 2000 ‘Woman Looking at Woman', Miralli Gallery, Viterbo, Italy - 'Atopia', House of Art, University of Ankara - Italian Cultural Institute, Istanbul - Italian Consulate, Izmir Turkey / 2001 'Cento Passi', ass. culturale Futuro, Rome, - 'Potrait of the Artist as an Atopian' Atelierart International, New York / 2002 ‘Landing in Accra’, National Museum of Accra, Ghana - Alliance Francaise Gallery Kumasi, Ghana - Sala Uno, Rome, Italy - Palazzo Calabrese, Viterbo, Italy / July 2003 'Europe paints Ghana' National Theatre Exhibition space, Accra, Ghana. -‘12 Artists For 12 Months’Foligno Italy - ’The Memory Room’ Shopafrik, Ghana/ 2004. ‘Seven Steps from Anomabo’ Dubois Centre, Accra - ‘Goldfield’ Alliance Francaise , Kumasi – Living Go(l)d alliance francaise Enugu , Nigeria (as part of Afrika Heritage / 2005 The Loom Gallery, Accra, Ghana, June curated by F. Ademola - 'Shoreline' Palazzo Trinci, september, Foligno, Italy - Palio di Foligno, Quintana di Settembre, Foligno. / 2006 'Blues For Charlie' Goethe Institute, Accra, Ghana, May 2006 - 'Landing in Accra' (revisited) Palazzo Cassotto, Modena, Italy, curated by 'Oltrelab' - '' Awanwandain’ (wunderkammer post-colonial) Wunderkammern, Spello, curated by Franco Ottavianelli -'The Newsroom-wallpaper' Albornoz Hotel, Spoleto. / 2007 'The Castaways Project' Whitworth Museum Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Britain, May-July, 'Exposures - A White Woman in West Africa', St Stephens Cultural Centre, May-June Rome-’Exposures’ at School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe,USA, and the Peck School of art,University of Wisconsin,cutated by Dick Blau. GROUP SHOWS 1979 Photographic Works Arts Council of Australia, Canberra, Australia /1980 Alice Prize, Alice Springs Northern Territory, Australia /1981 National Women's Art Festival Sydney, Australia /1982 Musee Des Beaux Arts Alexandria, Egypt /1983 Jubilee D'Or L'Atelier, Alexandria, Egypt /1984 Expoconfusione Galleria Interprize, Salerno, Italy /1986 Genazzano 86, Castello di Genazzano, Rome - Harambee Der groote Meer, Amsterdam - Palazzo degli Antichi Chiostri, Turin -Tròmso Kunstforening, Norway - Elittica L'Ariete gallery, Rome - Project Against Apartheid, L'Ariete gallery, Rome /1987 Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Hamburg, Germania - Five artists from Italy Bank of Ireland Exhibition hall, Dublin, Ireland - Supra Roma Contemporary Art gallery of Anchorage, U.S.A. - Seminare l'Imprevisto L'Ariete Gallery, Rome - Dieci e Lode Valentini Palace, Roma - La Forma Nell'Immagine Arezzo, Italy /1988 Supra Roma M.I.T. Cambridge, Massachussets, U.S.A. - Festival Internazionale del Cinema per l'ambiente, Viterbo, Italy /1989 Acervo, Galleria Documenta, San Paolo, Brazil - Ottava rassegna del Disegno in Brasile, Museum of Contemporary Art, Parana, Brazil /1990 Parabens Curitiba Galleria Bico Da Pena, Curitiba, Brazil /1991 Plamena Zavesa Galleria Duka Dinic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia - Prosveta Galleria Kavkaz, Belgrade, Yugoslavia - Horizont Knnjiizara Prosveta, Belgrade, Yugoslavia /1992 Small Works, Wide Visions Downlands College, Queensland, Australia - C.D. show Collective gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland /1993 Witnesses of Existence University of Kingston, England and Obala Gallery, Sarajevo - Royal Scottish Academy, Scotland - In Bloom Kirkaldy Art Centre, Fife, Scotland /1994 The British Affirmation European Youth Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin - An east-west dialogue Demarco Art Foundation, Edinburgh - Women light up the night Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin Mitte - 369 Gallery, Edinburgh - A celebration of Art in Music University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with composer Nigel Osborne /1995 Mayfest Royal Society of Artists, Glasgow - Art 95 Contemporary Arts Fair, Londra - Downlands College Collection Toowoomba Art Gallery Australia - Heart to Art Lochgelly Art Centre, Fife, Scotland - Festival Exhibition Scottish Arts Club Glasgow - SAAC Exhibition Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh - Symbols of Communication Scotland Street Museum, Glasgow /1996 Progettolego Palazzo Comunale, Spoleto and Galleria Larga, Firenze - Italian Hill Towns Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh - Spolia Studio 87, in occasion of the Festival di Spoleto - Laboratorio per il Fine Secolo Per Mare e Monti Association, Macerata - Demarco Art Foundation, Festival of Edinburgh - Artenatura: Una Rivoluzione Naturale Cancelli di Foligno, Umbria /1997 Anon Sherman galleries, Sydney Australia - Una Pietra Per S. Claudio Spello, Umbria - Presenze: Foreign Artists In Italy Padiglione Neri, Perugia - Parallel Time: Five Australian Artists in Umbria Pinacoteca di Trevi, Perugia, Italy /1998 Origini e mutazioni Palazzo Bachettoni, Spoleto – ‘Luoghi Del Corpo e Dello Spirito’ - Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia Trevi, Campello, Spoleto - Il Punto Verso: Percorsi della Follia Teatro Della Villa, Roma - Lady Diana Trevi Flash Art Museum of Contemporary Art – ‘Mini-atura’ Many H. Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel (travelling) - Artesacra SpazioImmagine, Foligno - Per un Museo della terracotta Marsciano, Italy - Guerra e rivoluzione Rocca Di Umbertide, centre for Contemporary Art, Italy - I ritmi dell'Arte La Corte di Boboli, Rome - Ombroso Chiesa di San Carlo, Spoleto /1999 Carissime Nemiche Il Politecnico Gallery, Rome, Cankaia Gallery, Ankara - Dalla Terra The Brewery, Los Angeles, U.S.A., Palazzo Dei Consoli, Gubbio, Italy - Simbiosi Museum of Gallese Rome - In Chartis Mevanie Bevagna, curated by Italo Tomassoni – ‘Praga Magica - Oro e Nero’ Palazzo Dei Sette, Orvieto, curated by Enrico Mascelloni - Viaggatori Sulla Flaminia n.2: Strade primarie e Strade Secondarie Spoleto – ‘Il Sogno, il Segno, Il Colore’ Al Assad National Library, Damascus, curated by Massimo Scaringella /2000 ‘AutoreDonna’ Castello di Castoglincello, Livorno - Carissime Nemiche Italian Cultural Institute Cairo, Rabat Morocco and Academy of Fine Arts, Beirut - Incontri d'arte Contemporanea alla Majorana - 6 Rome, curated by Anna Cocchetti - Seventy over Two Thousand on the road to Meikle Seggie Kingston University, England, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, curated by R.De Marco - SacroSanto in collaboration with the Galleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea and Sala Uno, Rome – ‘Della Notte’ Pio Monti Gallery Rome – ‘AnnoDivino’ curated by Anna Cocchetti, Palazzo Baleani Iesi - Jolly Hotel Midas Rome - Waiblingen, Germany /2001 Hermanns Biennial Art Prize Sherman Galleries Sydney and travelling nationally in Australia - Hermanns Art Award: 2001: Tamworth City Gallery - Tweed River Regional Gallery - Hermanns Melbourne Stores - Bendigo Art Gallery and Arts Centre NSW - Amici Miei Trevi Flash Art Museum - 41st Premio Suzzara, Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Suzzara, Mantova - Guardaroba curated by Grazia De Palma, monastero di Santa Scholastica, Bari. /2002 Hermann's Art Award: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria - Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery NSW - Wollongong City Gallery NSW - Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia - Extra Vergine Flash Art Museum, Trevi curated by Pio Monti – ‘Nero E Bianco’ Fantauzzi,Trevi, curated by Giorgio Bonomi - Biakoye Contemporary Spirits Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome - Palazzo Calabrese Viterbo and Alliance Francaise in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana /2003 National Theatre Gallery, Accra, Ghana, 'Rose's Choice' (2nd edition) International Museum of Womens Art, Scontrone, Italy / ‘20 x 30’ and ‘Matriacato’ ass.culturale Dedalo, Italy - 2004 ‘Vanitas’, Certosa di Padula, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, - ‘Artists for Peace’, Assisi, Italy – ‘Artiade’ (Olympics of Visual art), invited artist) Tavros, on occasion of Athens Olympics – Crudelia’s project, Riparte, Genoa – Openasia , Lido of Venice on ocasion of Venice Film Festival – ‘Stanze’ Crudelia’s Project, Villa Massaioli, Italy. LIBEROLIBROd'ARTISTALIBERO, Spoleto, Chiesa di S.Carlo, curated by G.Bonomi, A.Cochetti, C.Metelli, V.Tessitore. / 2005 'Art in the Garden Six' French Embassy, October, Accra - 'Notte Al Castello', Campello Alto, August, curated by Rita Rocconi, Umbria, Italy - 'Viaggio in Italia', Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, November, curated by Antonella Pisilli - 'Viaggio in italia 2', sala Uno, Rome , December - 'Artisti in Soccorso' teatro Ambra Jovanelli, Roma, December. / 2006 'Art In The Garden 9' - French Embassy, Accra, Ghana. - 'A Tale of Two Cities' Goethe Institute, Accra - Alliance Francaise, Kumasi - 'Artisti Stranieri in Umbria-Festival of Corciano' curated by Massimo Duranti and Carlo Ponti, Italy - 'Sankofa' University of New York In Ghana - 'Art in the Garden 10' Canadian High Commission, Accra.- ArteHotel, Perugia, Italy, November 2006 - 'Geo-graphic' (Ryan, Decarvahlo, Marini), La Casa Verde, Foligno, Italy - Artists for the Rita Levi-Montalcini Foundation, Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy, curated by Graziano Marini. / 2007 '14 Banners for Fourteen Trees - an art action' Cantonments Roundabout, Accra, Ghana, - ‘Equal Exchange’ New York University Staff and Students Show, Dubois Centre, Accra – ‘Sconfinamenti’ Palazzo della Vignola, Todi, curated by Graziano Marini – ‘Terra Dei Maestri’ Villa Fidelia, Spello, curated by Giorgio Bonomi –‘In Cartis Mevanie 1997-2007’ curated by Antonio Carlo Ponti – ‘Ex Voto’ curated by Franco Troiani, Chiesa di San Carlo, Spoleto -'Food for Thought-Bamonte,McPeake,Ryan' Marfuga, Campello Italy - 'Ghana@50'World Bank, Washington, curated by Marina Galvani-'Nativita'Museum of Modern Art, Spoleto, curated by Anna Leonardi-‘Intramoenia’ Castle of Acaya, Puglia, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Giusy Caloppo REVIEWS AND CRITIQUES Australia: Sasha Grishin, Sonia Kaleski, Gary Raffaele, Carol Twopeny, Lisa Clifford, Jonathan Turner,Rosa Falvo. Egypt: Amal Choukri Catta. Brazil: Adalice Araujo, Marlene De Almeida, Francisco Souto Neto, Nilza Procopiak, Joao-Enrique Amaral, Aurelio Benitez. USA: Jan Ingram, Cynthia Elek, Karen Koblitz. Erica Bornstein. Great Britain: Clare Henry, Giles Sutherland, W. Gordon Smith, Victoria Keller, Adrien Henri, Dr David Weeks. Italy: Mario Rotta, Carmine Siniscalco, Barbara Tosi, Franco Gentilucci, Enrico Mascelloni, Cecilia Metelli, Bruno Toscano, Emidio De Albentiis, Mario Pisani, MariaGrazia Taddeo, Maria-Rosa Cutrufelli, Roberto Segatori, Martina Corgnati, Anna Cocchetti, Claudia Collesanti, Achille Bonito Oliva, Roberta Bonetti, MaryAngela Schroth, Stefania Caracci, Laura Lacan, Eugenio Viola, Marta Massaioli, Vittorio Sgarbi, Massimo Duranti, Michaela Nardi, Antonella Pisilli. Germany: Ute Diehl. Ghana: Gilbert Amegetchar, George Hagan, Abena P.A. Busia., John Owoo, Esi Sutherland, Nat Amarteifeio. Nigeria : Krydz Ikwemesi |
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