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Robert Ellis Proverbs Proverbs is a long-term mul
timedia project involving a combination of audio, alongside still and moving images that seek to engage with the contemporary landscape of Uganda, while exploring its layers of memory. As a body of work it emerged in response to the writing of Ng g wa Thiong’o, a Nobel prize nominated author, who describes the African landscape as being “blanketed in a European memory of place”. robertellis.eu Sarah Flynn Uinse Uinse is a multidisciplinary project working with photography, text, sound and installation, looking at Ash Dieback, a fatal disease that has devastated ash tree populations across Europe. The work comprises of two parts. Part 1 is an urgent response to the devastating, yet under-acknowledged impact of Ash Dieback in Ireland. Part 2 is an exploration into our idea of ‘nature’ and examines the role of photography within the formation of its contemporary character. sarahflynn.ie Dorje de Burgh Dream the End Dream the End is a speculative and ongoing interrogation of the artist’s visual family archive. This research is centred upon the examination of the photograph’s ruptured relationship with index, memory, temporality, and death, set against a contemporary context dominated by the nihilism of data and relentless dematerialisation. It is also a telling of the artist’s mother’s story, the story of their relationship, its intensity, and its end. IG: dum_studio NEW IRISH First launched in 2013, the third edition of New Irish Works was showcased in the Museum of Contemporary Photography pop-up in The Printworks in Dublin Castle last month. The selection was made by a panel after an open call for all photographers and artists based in Ireland, and Irish artists developing their practice abroad, young and not so young, emerging and established, to submit their recent and ongoing projects. We present images from each of their bodies of work. 32