in the glow of a frozen flame
This collaborative project between visual artist, Brian Teeling and art writer, Jennie Taylor explores Crawford Art Gallery’s building and its immediate surroundings. Evocative, subversive images and flash fiction populate this publication, capturing and entangling a stillness of a witnessing object and the frantic movements of a living gaze.
In this work, time fictionally folds and collapses to bring details from 1921–24 into a dislocated moment. Imagery and storytelling act as tools to slice, swell and exaggerate sculptures, architectural features and historic events. Teeling and Taylor’s work is drawn from research of the gallery with a focus on the display of 18th and 19th century sculptural forms in the gallery’s iconic Sculpture Galleries, combined with events that occurred and were visible from the building during the period and the life of a local artisan from the same time.
BUILDING AS WITNESS focuses on the site of Crawford Art Gallery (previously Crawford Municipal School of Art) which was witness to histories of local, national, and international importance surrounding the Irish Civil War period.
in the glow of a frozen flame is drawn from research of the buildings’ architectural features, the permanent display in the Sculpture Galleries, a selection of buildings located in Emmett Place, events that occurred and were visible from the Gallery during 1921-1924 and the life of a local artisan from the same period.
Photography and text by Brian Teeling
Text by Jennie Taylor
Design by Keith Nally
Published by MSCLTR-
First edition of 300 copies
Softcover (coptic binding)
384 pages
102 x 215 mm
ISBN 9781399984355