Marianne Keating
Title: احتضن جميع الأطفال بالتساوي (Cherish All Children Equally)
Media: Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Size: 27.9 x 42 cm
About the work: The text is taken from the Proclamation of the Republic (Forógra na Poblachta), which was read by Patrick Pearse on the steps of the General Post Office (GPO), Dublin, Ireland, during the Easter Rising, which began on 24 April 1916 and proclaimed Ireland's independence from the British Empire.
Later, these words were repeated on 1 July 1990 by Nelson Mandela during his address to Dáil Éireann on his continuing fight against apartheid in South Africa just months after his release from prison in South Africa. In an excerpt from his address, Mandela stated:
"The very fact that there is today an independent Irish State, however long it took to realise the goals of the Irish people by bringing it into being, confirms that we too shall become a free people; we too shall have a country which will, as [was] said in the proclamation of 1916, cherish all the children of the nation equally."
Bio: Marianne Keating is an Irish artist and researcher based in London. She has a practice-based PhD in Visual & Material Culture from Kingston University, London and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London.
She was shortlisted to represent Ireland in the 2022 Venice Biennial and has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and internationally. Her upcoming exhibitions in 2025 include The Irish Pavilion, World Expo, Osaka, Japan; The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland; The Model, Sligo; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick; Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford Ireland.
Recent and current exhibitions include (2024) The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Rua Red, Dublin and The Model, Sligo. (2023) The Showroom, London. (2022) Whitechapel Gallery, London and Jaou Tunis: Contemporary Art Biennale, Tunisia. (2020) Black Tower Projects, London. (2019) The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; South London Gallery, London and Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Barbados.
Title: Cherish All Children Equally
Media: Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Size: 27.9 x 42 cm
About the work: The text is taken from the Proclamation of the Republic (Forógra na Poblachta), which was read by Patrick Pearse on the steps of the General Post Office (GPO), Dublin, Ireland, during the Easter Rising, which began on 24 April 1916 and proclaimed Ireland's independence from the British Empire.
Later, these words were repeated on 1 July 1990 by Nelson Mandela during his address to Dáil Éireann on his continuing fight against apartheid in South Africa just months after his release from prison in South Africa. In an excerpt from his address, Mandela stated:
"The very fact that there is today an independent Irish State, however long it took to realise the goals of the Irish people by bringing it into being, confirms that we too shall become a free people; we too shall have a country which will, as [was] said in the proclamation of 1916, cherish all the children of the nation equally."
Title: Better Must Come
Media: Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Size: 27.9 x 42 cm
About the work: The text Better Must Come reflects on the sustained wait for a wholesale change in Jamaica. A change hoped for at independence and a phrase repeated in present-day Jamaica that speaks of the search for peace amongst the gang-riddled landscape.
This violence was birthed through the impact of external interference on the two-party political system, leading to its polarisation and resulting in the formation of garrison politics in the 1970s and 1980s. The legacy of which has left the people in post-independent Jamaica still waiting for the hope and the promise, that better that must come.
Title: A Beautiful Dream
Media: Digital Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Size: 27.9 x 42 cm
About the work: The text is taken from Ireland's fight for self-determination, known as A Beautiful Dream. The text speaks of the sustained wait for change, the hope and the dream for a free and independent Ireland. It refers to Ireland's long-fought struggle for self-determination and the complexity of true liberation from the British Empire.