Amanda Dunsmore: Agreement – Reception & Artist Talk

Join Mitchell Art Gallery on June 19, in celebrating our new exhibition AGREEMENT, featuring artworks from Irish artist Amanda Dunsmore’s research-intensive practice that investigates societal transformation via portraiture. AGREEMENT is on view at Mitchell Art Gallery from May 21 – August 23, 2024.

AGREEMENT features artworks from Irish artist Amanda Dunsmore’s research-intensive practice that investigates societal transformation via portraiture. Following the signing of the Belfast ‘Good Friday’ Agreement on April 10, 1998, Dunsmore began a dedicated practice of filming video portraits of each of the fourteen signatories– a creative process that took two decades to complete. The resulting artwork, AGREEMENT (2004 – 2023) asks for a similarly committed viewership: seeing the work in its entirety would require weekly visits, as each portrait is being screened for a single week during the fourteen-week exhibition. AGREEMENT is on view at Mitchell Art Gallery from May 21 – August 23, 2024.

The reception will begin with an artist talk by Amanda Dunsmore at 6 p.m. held at the Betty Andrews Recital Hall, followed by a reception at 7 p.m. in the Allard Hall Main Atrium.