Declan Long is an Irish art critic and lecturer specialising in contemporary art made in ‘Post-

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Career

Declan Long is the programme director of the MA course 'Art in the Contemporary World' at the

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. He frequently appears on ''Arena'' on

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Radio 1, discussing and reviewing contemporary art. His criticism is regularly published in

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, and '' Source Photographic Review.'' In 2013 Long was a member of the judging panel for the

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and he is also a board member of the

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, Dublin. He has written gallery texts for numerous exhibitions including:

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(for Alexander & Bonin, New York and Matt’s Gallery, London, 2012),

Isabel Nolan Isabel Nolan is an Irish contemporary artist who works with sculpture, textile, photographs, and text. Nolan lives and works in Dublin. Work Nolan, according to a review of her work in Frieze Magazine, works similarly to Eva Berendes, Nicho ...

(The Model, Sligo, and Le Musée d'art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, 2011), Jesse Jones (

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, 2011),

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(

, 2009), Ulla Von Brandenburg (

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, 2009),

Lothar Hempel Lothar Hempel (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German artist based in Berlin. He attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1987 to 1992. Artistic practice Hempel transforms the exhibition space into a stage on which the visitor becomes an actor in a st ...

(

, 2008), William McKeown (

, 2008), Fergus Feehily (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, 2008), Clodagh Emoe,

Nina Canell Nina Canell (born 1979) is a sculpture and installation artist born in Växjö, Sweden and educated at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, Ireland. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany Work Nina C ...

, and Linda Quinlan (for the exhibition 'Come Together' at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2007). His 2017 book, ''Ghost-haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-troubles Northern Ireland'', was described in

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as "a foundational work of art criticism that will stand alongside Colin Graham’s study of photography and the North as a first point of reference for anyone interested in the Troubles and their cultural legacies."

Bibliography

*Long, Declan. ''Anois''. Dublin: Temple Bar Gallery & Studios (2001). *Long, Declan. ''Didymosphenia Geminata: Barrie Cooke''. Dublin: Kerlin Gallery (2007). *Long, Declan. ''Passage''. Belfast: Golden Thread Gallery (2007). *Long, Declan, and Beatrix Ruf. ''Ulla Von Brandenburg: Whose Beginning is Not, Nor End Cannot be''. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008). *Juncosa, Enrique; Lotz, Corinna; Long, Declan. William McKeown. Milan & Dublin: Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art (2009). *Long, Declan. ''Willie Doherty Photo/text/85/92.'' London & New York: Matt's Gallery & Alexander and Bonin (2012). *Murray, Peter; Long, Declan. ''Mark Clare, I Believe in You''. Cork:

Crawford Art Gallery The Crawford Art Gallery () is a public Art museum, art gallery and museum in the city of Cork (city), Cork, Ireland. Known informally as the Crawford, it was designated a 'National Cultural Institution' in 2006. It is "dedicated to the visual ar ...

(2014). *Packer, Matt; Long, Declan; Ricks, Jim. ''Here Comes The Summer.'' Derry: Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry (2017). * Long, Declan. ''Ghost-haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-troubles Northern Ireland''. Manchester:

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(2017). * Long, Declan, Kelly Grovier, Rudi Fuchs, and Sean Scully. ''Sean Scully: Landlines and Other Recent Works''. London: Cultureshock Media (2019).

References

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