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Manchester School of Art

Manchester School of Art

Fionna Barber

Fionna Barber is a member of:

A selection of recent research outputs.
Exhibitions

Barber, F. and Johnston, M, 2010. Archiving Place and Time: contemporary art from Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement, Holden Gallery, MMU; Millennium Court Arts Centre, Craigavon, NI; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Nov-Dec 2009 (MMU) then touring.

Edited Books

Barber, F., 2009. 'After the War: Visual Culture in Northern Ireland since the Ceasefires', Routledge.

Book Chapters

Barber, F., 2010. 'Double Vision: art and the recent past in Northern Ireland'. In Barber, F and Johnston, M (eds.) Archiving Place and Time, pp.4-9, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Craigavon.

Barber, F., 2009. ''The Hidden Lives of the Manchester School of Art''. In Artschool! Manchester School of Art since 1938, pp.3-7, Manchester School of Art / MMU Library Special Collections 2009.

Barber, F., 2005. 'An Iceberg's Collision with History: some recent work by Rita Duffy'. In Rita Duffy: The Essential Gesture, Belfast.

Barber, F., 2005. 'Excavating Room 50: Irish Art at the 1950 Venice Biennale'. In F. Cullen and J. Morrison (eds.) A Shared Legacy: Essays on Irish and Scottish Art and Visual Culture, pp 207-223, Ashgate.

Barber, F., 2004. 'Abstract Expressionism and Masculinity'. In Paul Wood (eds.) Varieties of Modernism, Yale University Press / The Open University.

Barber, F., 2004. 'Hybrid Histories: Alice Maher'. In G. Perry (eds.) Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: the visibility of women's practice, pp. 88-103, Blackwell.

Barber, F., 2004. 'Surrealism 1924 -1929'. In S. Edwards and P. Wood (eds.) Art of the Avant-Gardes, pp.426-448, Yale University Press / The Open University.

Journal Articles

Barber, F., 2010. ''Introduction'', Visual Culture in Britain, 10:2, July 2009, pp.117-111111213.

Barber, F., 2009. 'Disturbed Ground: Francis Bacon, Traumatic Memory and the Gothic', The Irish Review, no.39, pp125-138.

Barber, F., 2009. 'Ghost Stories: an Interview with Willie Doherty', Visual Culture in Britain, 10:2, July 2009, pp.189-199.

Barber, F., 2001. 'The Instability of Otherness: Gender, Irishness and Identity', Visual Culture in Britain, Vol.2, No.2, Autumn 2001, pp.87-105.

Other Outputs

Barber, F., 2009. 'Archiving Place and Time: contemporary art from Northern Ireland since the Belfast Agreement', Symposium, November 2009.

Barber, F., 2009. 'Second Sight: modernity, exile and the visual in Ireland', Keynote address to the Visual Culture of Modernity in Ireland conference.

Barber, F., 2008. 'Foreword for exhibition catalogue,', Rita Duffy: Remnant,.