DR Garry Doherty
Research Associate & Studio Manager
College of Arts, Technologies & Innovation
Garry Dohery is an Artist who exhibits internationally and has extensive experience in curatorial practice. www.garrydoherty.com
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School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI)
University of East London
Docklands Campus
London
E16 2RD - g.doherty@uel.ac.uk +442082233426
The work addresses his own cultural perspective as a Muslim and acknowledges the necessity to foster an effective spirituality that activates compassion, in order to redeem traumatic events in history. His strategies oppose imminence with transcendence, a paradox that endeavoured to forge salvation with trauma, recovering its redemptive power through beauty.
Beauty acquires an antithetical position in which it attempts to liberate pain from terror, beauty necessitates order, and seeks wholeness. The work endeavours to invoke catharsis in the audience by detaching the passions from the viewer and simulating a conscious wisdom that restores empathy 3 and redeems a moral fortitude through self-awareness. – Doherty attempts to create transcendent works of art that galvanise the experience of the sublime as a force for change.
Overview
Currently working on AHRC Funding Proposal entitled: Aesthetics of Citizenship.: examining the concept of active citizenship through contemporary visual art practice and production.
The Aesthetics of Citizenship is a 24-month practice-led research project (Feb 2020-Jan 2022) that examines how contemporary artistic practice can embody and engage with understandings of ‘active citizenship’: seen in this project as the responsibility for personal involvement in the negotiation and resolution of current political and societal challenges. Bridging the disciplinary gap between artistic and socio-political forms of academic enquiry our research asks: How do artists understand and express their role as active citizens within a Western democracy and what aesthetic forms and impacts arise from this activity?
The topic of citizenship in Europe has never commanded so much interest, controversy and concern as it does today. The decision to withdraw the UK from the EU has intensified and made more urgent long-standing issues such as: immigration and rights of residency; cultural and religious difference; devolution and the national distribution of investment and economic growth. However, little research exists that considers how artists respond, through their practice, to the responsibilities of ‘active citizenship’ in relation to these issues. Even less work has been done to explore this question from the perspective of visual artists based in the UK and to date, no research has been conducted in this subject since the Brexit referendum.
Our project aims to address this gap in research, by bringing together the creative practices and social perspectives of three established visual artists whose work engages with questions of citizenship, cultural identity and contemporary politics: Prof. Wolfgang Weileder (PI) and Joint Profs. Jane & Louise Wilson (CIs) at Newcastle University (NU), and Dr Garry Doherty (CI) at the University of East London (UEL). This creative practice-based team is joined Dr Bernadette Buckley (CI) Lecturer in International Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London who is a specialist academic working in the field of art and politics, and by Dr Rebecca Farley (Research Associate) who is an Early Career Researcher with specific expertise in qualitative and practice-led research, visual arts commissioning, and research project coordination and sector collaboration.
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
GARRY DOHERTY
(1st Class B.A Hons) Fine Art Hull. 1984
M.A. Fine Art Manchester.1986.
Professional Doctorate Fine Art. UEL.2012
Exhibitions:
2018 The Architects Villa – Residency, Antibes,
France.
2018 Hostellerie La Farandole Gallery,
Sanary-Sur-Mer, France. Transitions
2017 Angus Hughes Gallery, London. WoNoQoSo
2017 AVA Gallery UEL. London. Tempest.
2017 7 Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan. Munich.
2016 Die Gallerie FOE Munich, Germany. Foreign
Encounter.
2015 Nottingham Castle Museum. Nottingham.
Meniscus.
2015 Beloni Gallery, London. Auction.
2015 Castello Project Gallery. Venice, Italy Rebel
Angels
2014 HaiGallery, Taipei,Taiwan. Wavelength. Painting Installation
2013 Ozone Gallery
Belgrade Serbia. Amongst the Ruins. Installation
2013 Q-park Installation
Exhibition, London (frieze Period) Big Deal
2013 Le Salle
Magazanne Gallery, Venice Biennale, Italy. The Colony. Co curator.
2013 Artoll Gallery International Summer Exhibition.
“Nature.” Installation.
2013 Professional
Doctorate Exhibition – Final Doctorate Assessment. U.E.L.
2012 Directional Forces Exhibition. Art-Toll Residency.
Dusseldorf, Germany.
2012 East To East. Co-curated with H. Roberts and
S. Mooney. Exhibition work U.E.L
2012 Annex Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Exhibited a
textile print and a painting.
2012 East to East. Co-curated with H. Roberts and S.
Mooney. Exhibition of student work U.E.L Nadak Gallery, Singapore. Exhibited a
textile print and a painting.
2011 A.V.A. Gallery, U.E.L. Installation of drawing and
video object.
2010 Stones of Menace, church, London, curated by
Jon Purnell, one day exhibition - Invited artists, film makers, architects and
guest speakers. Installation of large drawing (8x3m). Future Perfect
2010 Professional Doctorate Summer Showcase, A.V.A. Studios,
U.E.L. Exhibited five paintings entitled Munich
2010 Off The Clock. Magnificent Basement Gallery, London.
Presented large drawing Future Perfect
2010 Off The Clock. The
Pavilion, Mile End Park. London. Installation large drawing (6x3m), Future Perfect
2010 Middlesborough, presented five paintings
entitled Munich
2010 Riseomamatic. Unit Twelve, Concord way, London,
installation of large three dimension drawing.
2010 Postcards To America, exchange exhibition between
New York State University and U.E.L.
2010 Professional Doctorate. Work in Progress Exhibition.
A.V.A.Gallery. U.E.L The first Installation of Drawn films, comprising of
drawing, object and video.
2010 Unreliable Narrative, Vyner Street Gallery,
London. Group show. Installation of drawing object and sound piece.
Collaborators
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Research
Publications
Additional scholarly activities
SUFISM: Representative of Shaykh Hazrat Azad Rasool, Naqshbandi-
Mujadiddi Order.
Director of a Muslim charity –School of Sufi Teaching. Co-ordinate and teach
weekly meetings and lead retreats throughout the year. 2017 Completed writing
preliminary teachings for new students for School of Sufi Teaching.
Funding
Funding £720,000 purchase of building in Bethnal Green, London, for Islamic Meditation Centre. £300,000 fund raise for restoration and design inauguration opening October 2018
Funding
I am the Director of a Muslim charity The School of Sufi Teaching with a particular remit in promoting cross-cultural education and dynamic spirituality.
Interests
Portfolio
Fine Art Professional Doctorate Supervisor, 2015 to current.
Manager of Art & Design studios and workshops.
Board member of Munir Foundation, Ethiopia. Dedicated to the renewal and restoration of the ancient Islamic city of Harrar, Ethiopia.
Associate member of Muslim Council of Great Britain.