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Archived Exhibition

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Louise Manifold

21 November 2020 — 06 March 2021
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Louise Manifold at The Dock
Louise Manifold at The Dock
  • Date 21 November 2020 — 06 March 2021
  • Opening Hours

    Tuesday to Saturday 11-5pm

About the Artist(s)

Louise Manifold graduated from Central St Martins College London and the Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland. Louise has been the recipient of awards from The Arts Council of Ireland, CultureIreland, and local authorities. In 2009 she was one of the four artists shortlisted for Allied Irish Bank Art prize for young artists of promise. She has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and internationally in exhibitions at Galway International Arts Festival, The Science Gallery Dublin, The MAC Belfast, ISCP, New York. Proximal Distances Chicago, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Red House Arts Centre Syracuse New York, Candid Arts Centre, London.411 Galleries, China. She has been awarded residencies with Tyrone Guthrie, SIM Iceland ISCP New York. The Botin Foundation, Spain. The Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin, Ireland( 2014/15). Current/recent projects include AerialSparks for Galway's European Capital of Culture Program, Architecture and the Art of Exile, Palas Cinema Galway and Wild-Screen Connemara.

The Jaquet-Droz Automata are a trio of astonishing programmable computers. They are the Writer, the Musician and the Designer and were made between 1768 and 1774 by exceptional master watchmakers, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, his son Henri-Louis and Jean-Frédéric Leschot. The Writer uses the technologies of miniaturization to build automaton inside the little doll. Within the boy-doll are almost six thousand astonishingly refined components, miniaturized to fit completely inside the body of the doll itself. At the Writer's core is a great stack of cams (rotating parts) which translate their rotation into the movement of the doll's hand to control every stroke of the quill pen and apply the exact pressure to the papers to achieve beautiful elegant and fluid writing. A special thank you to the Director and Staff at MahN, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel for their kind support with this project.

This project was supported by Galway County Council.

More Information

Visit Louise's website
Watch The Writer Automaton
Visit Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel

Louise Manifold works conceptually with film, photography, sculpture and text. Her multidisciplinary practice reflects upon the boundaries of neurosis and myth as a means to explore human disconnection from the lived world in favour of a private real. Fascinated by the power of stories and the creation of myth, Manifold's work explores narratives and scenarios that challenge ideas of the self and the body. The artist touches on ideas of cinematic estrangement and theatricality. This exhibition at The Dock presents new and recent work alongside several collages indicating Manifold's interest in museum artifacts, found ephemera and narratives that blur reality and fiction together.


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In spring of 2020, Louise Manifold and the singer Elizabeth Hilliard travelled to Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the museum which houses The Jaquet-Droz automata, three beautifully handmade mechanical animated dolls, and there, made a short film in response to these extraordinary creations. This project, developed with Hilliard, will be presented as a video installation The Escape Wheel, an opera work based on the performance, mechanism, design and action of the dolls.

Interview with Louise Manifold

Sarah Searson · Air Looms - Interview with artist Louise Manifold

Visual Artist, Curator and Lecturer Louise Manifold in discussion with curator and arts centre director Sarah Searson. Louise talks about her exhibition at The Dock She talks about her work with singer Elizabeth Hilliard at The Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, which houses The Jaquet-Droz automata, three beautifully handmade mechanical animated dolls. The exhibition includes a short film made there in response to these extraordinary creations.

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