Image above: Marin Parr, Keadue. Bungalow Bliss, From A Fair Day, 1980-1983.
Bungalow Bliss
Saturday 06 November 2021, 2:30 -3:30 (via Zoom webinar)
Hugh Wallace, Architect ++ Home of the Year, The Great House Revival, My Bungalow Bliss
Adrian Duncan, artist and award-winning writer based in Ireland and Berlin.
Emma McKeagney Artist and researcher
Moderator Laurence Lord, Architect at AP+E and RIAI Future Award winner 2021
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Hugh Wallace is a well-respected, award-winning architect and founding partner of Douglas Wallace Consultants (40 years ago). Hugh has a passion for creative design that engages with its audience to create conversation and comment. He believes that good architecture is essential to create social cohesion and enhance our enjoyment of our landscape and living environment whether in the city or countryside. It’s about creating a smile on our faces - creating a sense of place and belonging.
Hugh’s excitement at being involved as a judge in RTE’s Home of the Year is palpable as he opens the door to the most extraordinary homes in Ireland and seeing the creativity that abounds. He is also the presenter of RTE’s The Great House Revival, his other passion, the restoration of our architectural heritage from the humble farm buildings to the great houses of Ireland. My Bungalow Bliss is coming to RTÉ television soon. In this new series presented by Hugh Wallace, four bungalow owners will engage four innovative architects who will redesign their homes making them contemporary and more eco-friendly.
Adrian Duncan is an artist and award-winning writer based in Ireland and Berlin.
His debut novel Love Notes from a German Building Site was published by The Lilliput Press and Head of Zeus in 2019. It won the 2019 John McGahern Book Prize. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer. Duncan's second novel A Sabbatical in Leipzig was published by The Lilliput Press in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Kerry Novel of the Year Award. It will be republished in the UK in late 2022 with Tuskar Rock Press. His collection of short stories Midfield Dynamo was published by The Lilliput Press in March 2021 and was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. His third novel, The Geometer Lobachevsky, will appear in April 2022 with The Lilliput Press (IRL) and Tuskar Rock Press (UK).
In 2020/21 he exhibited, in collaboration with Feargal Ward, a large-scale film/sculptural installation work titled The Soil Became Scandinavian, at VISUAL, Carlow. In 2019 they co-directed a music video for Joy Division's Day of the Lords as part of the Unknown Pleasures Reimagined project. In 2020 his and Ward's film Tension Structures received its North American premier at Hot Docs, Toronto. In 2021 Duncan's short film Lost Colony was selected in competition for Docs Ireland.
From 1995 Duncan studied and worked as a structural engineer for over a decade in the UK and Ireland. He received his chartership from the IEI (Irish Engineering Institute) in 2007, before returning to study fine art at IADT, Dún Laoghaire in 2008. He received a 1st class MA (Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD, Dublin) in 2011.
He has guest tutored and guest lectured at UCD School of Architecture, Dublin; UCC School of Architecture, Cork; NCAD, Dublin; and Crawford College of Art, Cork.
He is coeditor of Paper Visual Art Journal (IRL/DE).
Emma Mc Keagney is an artist and researcher who has just completed an MA in Irish Studies at NUI Galway, Ireland. Mc Keagney’s current fixations are the agency of non-human actants, the archaeology of design and political ecologies. She finished a BA in Art in IADT, Dun Laoghaire in 2017 where she also carried out a semester in Helskini, Finland. Upon graduating she won Talbot Studios’ Most Promising Graduate Award with her project Glacial Till on the agency of clay. She also won an Academic Excellence Award from IADT on her dissertation about artist run spaces in Dublin city. In 2018 she exhibited her first solo show, Unstable Categories, in Pallas Projects and Studios in Dublin where she explored the blurred categories of human, non-human and design. She has recently been awarded an Agility Award by the Arts Council of Ireland to turn her recent MA Dissertation on Irish Bungalows into a photography and oral history project. To learn more about her practice and work go to www.emmamckeagney.com
Laurence Lord is an architect with AP+E and lecturer with Queen’s University Belfast. AP+E is a design and research studio based in Ireland and The Netherlands. It operates in the space between design, strategy and architecture to apply fresh perspectives and draw parallels between the wide range of issues concerning the contemporary built environment. The practice is driven by a strong interest in the social and cultural value of architecture. Laurence was part of the Free Market team, as Co-Commissioner/Curator for the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2018.
He is recipient RIAI Future Award winner 2021.
Hugh Wallace, Architect
Adrian Duncan, artist and writer
Photo; Finn Richards, 2019
