| Dates: | born 1956
| | Biography: | 1956 Born in Cork.
Lives and works in Dublin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1996 Arnolfini, Bristol
1996 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Oriel
Mostyn, Llandudno
1993 Works from Powerhouse, Douglas
Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
1988 Ebb, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity
college, Dublin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1999 New Media Projects (Cross, Dolvin,
Dean, La Fontaine, Rolfe), Orchard
Gallery, Derry
1998 Art into Art, National Gallery, Dublin
1997 Residue, Douglas Hyde Gallery,
Trinity College, Dublin
1997 5th International Istanbul Biennial,
Istanbul
1996 Home and Away, Tate Gallery,
Liverpool
1996 D. Cross/D. Ireland, Center for the
Arts, San Francisco, California
1995 Passions Privees, Musee d'Art
Moderne, Paris
1994 Bad Girls, ICA London/CCA
Glasgow
1994 E.V.A., Limerick City Gallery,
Limerick
1993 "An Irish Presence," La Biennale di
Venezia, XLV Esposizione
Internazionale d'Arte, Venice
1991 Strongholds, Tate Gallery,
Liverpool/Sara Hilden Museum,
Tampere, Finland
FURTHER READING
Ebb (exh. cat.), Douglas Hyde Gallery,
Trinity College, Dublin 1998
even (exh. cat.), Arnolfini, Bristol 1996
Irish Women Artists (exh. cat.), The
National Gallery of Ireland/Douglas Hyde
Gallery, Dublin 1987
Strongholds: New Art from Ireland (exh.
cat.), Tate Gallery, Liverpool/Sara Hilden
Museum, Tampere 1991 | | | Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | | Date of source: | 1999 |
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| | Description: | The work Dorothy Cross has made for
TRACE is an extension of a recent
installation, Ghost Ship, realised near
Dublin in 1999. For the original work
Cross painted a retired light ship with
many layers of phosphorescent paint
and moored it out at sea within sight of
the esplanade of Dublin Bay. Every
evening just before dusk the boat's sides
were flooded with strong ultraviolet light.
As the sun faded the lights were turned
off. The boat remained visible as a
luminous, ghostly presence between the
shore and the horizon. The original
purpose of the light ship as a marker of
reefs and dangerous waters brings to
mind the many ships that foundered in
spite of every precaution. Each evening
crowds of sightseers would come to the
cold waterside to watch this mystery
unfold and speculate about the history of
the sea and of this boat in particular.
Cross braved the windswept channel in a
dinghy one night to make a video of the
glowing boat from the sea. A projection
of this video will be screened at dusk
each night along the edge of the Mersey
in Liverpool, where boats from Dublin
used to moor. In years past these Irish
boats depended on the light ship for their
safe passage to England. At the
Exchange Flags the artist has also
installed a phosphorescent model of the
ship, made in preparation for the original
project. | | Description Source: | "Trace, 1st Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art", Festival catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 1999 | | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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