Jackie Nickerson’s new portfolio, Ten Miles Round, at the Gallery of Photography, Dublin is previewed by Stephanie McBride
Jackie Nickerson’s fine portraiture first emerged in Farm, her series on agricultural labourers and landscapes in Africa, and was followed by her study of religious communities in Faith.
In her latest body of work, ‘Ten Miles Round,’ she re-enacts the delicate observations of that portrait work, casting her eye on her own locality in Co Louth and pointing her camera on the people and landscape to rework the overlooked and commonplace. The personal and local are, in Nickerson’s gallery, linked – even if this link is undercut by the dogged familiarity of the everyday, which Maurice Blanchot notes ‘one has always looked past… the everyday is what we never see for a first time, but only see again.’ Nickerson’s process of creative documenting renews our vision of the well-worn and habitual
On the eve of his show at the Hunt Museum, Limerick, in Winter 2009 Joseph McBrinn considered the unique aesthetic Rudolf Heltzel has brought to jewellery design.
