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Professor Declan McGonalge Declan McGonagle is a prominent figure in Irish contemporary art, most notable for his positions as director at the Orchard Gallery in Derry (for which he was shortlisted for a Turner prize in 1987); director at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from its beginnings in 1990 until 2001, and director of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin since 2008.〔http://46.22.133.24/images/research/Declan_McGonagle.doc〕 He has stated that he is committed to raising the profile of Irish art internationally.〔http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1995/0126/Pg014.html#Ar01400〕 According to his profile on the National College of Art and Design website, he is a contributing editor of ''Artforum'', New York, and a member of the International Advisory Panel of Engage, London, and is a former board member of Derry - UK City of Culture 2013, having worked on the bid document and chaired the interim board. He writes, lectures and publishes regularly on art and museum/gallery policy issues, and curates exhibitions with a focus on the relationship between art/artist and society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Research Profile - Professor Declan McGonagle - National College of Art and Design )〕 McGonagle was born in Derry in 1953 and attended St Columb's College in Derry.〔 He studied Fine Art at the College of Art and Design in Belfast (1971-1975), where he also completed a Postgraduate Higher Diploma in Painting in 1976.〔 In the mid seventies and early eighties he worked as a painter and a lecturer of Art and Design at the Regional Technical College, Letterkenny, County Donegal before he took up the post of director at the newly established Orchard Gallery in County Londonderry.〔 ==1978-1990 (Orchard and ICA London)== Derry City Council was responsible for setting up the Orchard Gallery on Orchard Street in the city of Derry and advertised for a curator in the late seventies. McGonagle was appointed to the post in 1978 and remained there until 1984. He gave up painting a year after he joined the Orchard.〔http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1993/0609/Pg008.html#Ar00800〕 "Though not purpose-built, the gallery was the first physical space in the city to be professionally devoted to the arts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City of Culture 2013 - Declan McGonagle )〕 The Orchard established itself on a minimal budget, and McGonagle found that international artists were attracted by the concept of addressing the issues of communities in conflict.〔http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1990/0416/Pg014.html#Ar01400〕 In his first prominent role as a curator, McGonagle saw the gallery as “a facilitator for things to happen”. Here, he advocated community involvement and brought in challenging international exhibitions. People came to the Orchard for seminars, book fairs, punk rock sessions, performing arts, audio art, and photographic exhibitions. In the early days of the gallery, Feargal Sharkey and The Undertones played there regularly. Notable exhibitions during McGonagle’s tenure include Richard Long, Les Levine, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Derry Guildhall, Colin Harrison, Derek Hill, Felim Egan, and Robert Ballagh. The director said of the gallery: “()t is okay to have a small audience for some things, as long as I feel I have done everything I can do to get the audience... When I am presenting an exhibition I am not celebrating it, I am saying to people- ‘here it is’.”〔http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1986/0505/Pg012.html#Ar01201〕 In 1983, he was approached by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He accepted the role of director there while keeping close contact and transferring exhibitions to the Orchard (before finally returning to Derry in 1986 to continue running the gallery for another four years).〔 In 1987 he became the first ever arts administrator to be shortlisted for the Turner prize for his work at the Derry gallery.〔http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1987/0713/Pg008.html#Ar00804〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Declan McGonagle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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