Barry Jacques at the Linenhall
The gun as a potent icon of our times brings with it mostly negative and fearsome associations. It is an aid in crime, violence and war; and its construction is intended for only one purpose, to propel a small piece of pointed lead that can take away one's most precious possession - life. Barry Jacques's art presents us with portraits of varying types of hand guns. These are achieved through a somewhat elaborate photo-reproduction printing process. In giving us such images we are faced with a many-levelled experience. We are confronted by what might deserve our disapproval and yet, at the same time, enticed into an aesthetic experience in which we cannot help but admire the variety of lines and shapes which comprise the attractive forms of the lethal objects we are looking at. In this experience resides the value of Jacques's work.
Fred Bazler M.F.A.
Lecturer in Charge of the History of Art & Design Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Biography
Barry Jacques graduated from Limerick College of Art and Design in 1995. Since then he has worked as Artist and Technician in the Cork Printmakers, an open access print studio in the heart of Cork, and is currently Technician in the Print Department of the Art Faculty of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Jacques has exhibited widely, having shown throughout Ireland and Scotland. He had his first solo show in 1998 in the Belltable Arts Centre in Limerick. Jacques lives and works in Galway where he has a studio with 'Artspace' at the Blackbox.
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