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MacWilliam to represent NI at Venice (Tuesday 24 June 2008)

The cover of Circa 118, Winter 2006, featuring Susan MacWilliam: Headbox (detail), 2004, stereoscope with wall handles, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; courtesy the artist

Susan MacWilliam has been chosen as the artist to represent Northern Ireland at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Karen Downey, Exhibitions Director at Belfast Exposed Photography, will curate the solo show.

MacWilliam is best known for her ambiguous take on paranormal and parapsychological phenomena. You can read a recirca.com article by Slavka Sverakova looking at some of this material, by clicking here, and you can read Noel Kelly's Circa article on MacWilliam here. MacWilliam's own website is here.

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