multi-disciplinary exploration of the art and science of looking
Junction Festival, Clonmel, July 2018
Afterimage commission for CÚRAM, NUIGalway, 2018.
Joining the Dots, German Gymnasium, Kings Cross, Lumiere London 2016
Pratiques, 5 Permanent installations Mediathèque de Sorgues. 2010
Our first video work Touchy was part of a long series of subversive performances that we made during the 1990s. Old enough to be interesting again…
SELF-IMPRESSIONS at the Tate Modern
London, March 2018
Real Time Rolling Shutter with David Monaghan and Conor Gallagher, 2012
Anne & Denis With Guillaume Dumas at Théâtre La Reine Blanche, Paris, Oct. 2019.
Cleary Connolly guests on France24, April 2013.
THE ECO SHOWBOAT: AN ECOLOGICAL FLOATING ARTS LAB CONNECTING COMMUNITIES ACROSS IRELAND TO BUILD A ZERO CARBON FUTURE 2022-2023
This series of ten permanent installations evoke Derrigimlagh’s historical legacy - the Marconi Station and Alcock & Brown’s transatlantic flight - of which almost no physical trace remains in the wild landscape.
Pompidou Centre, Paris, 2008-2009
Light installation, German Gymnasium, Lumiere London 2016
Metaperceptual Helmets at Liverpool Festival, 2016
Less Than Thirteen Barbican, London, 2017
Metaperceptual Helmets at the Dead Zoo, National Museum, Dublin, 2014
METAPERCEPTUAL HELMETS, 2014-2019: the wearer becomes a hybrid creature - part human, part machine, part animal, but also part work of art - contemplating the world from a new perspective
THE MUSIC BOX - Installation by Cleary Connolly - FITZGERALD PARK, CORK DEC 9th 2022 - JAN 21 2023
SCHOOLS: many of our installations are the result of school projects
LIGHT: several installations work with lighting
CAMERAS: many of our installations work with cameras and computers
MACHINES FOR LOOKING: most of our installations are set up to look at a specific environment
VIDEO: most of our earlier artworks were made with moving images
CHANGE YOUR STRIPES, Lumiere Derry, 2013
Paris based artists, Anne Cleary & Denis Connolly have shown in the Pompidou Centre, the Barbican and the Tate Modern. Their work involves collaborations with scientists, artists and the public, taking many forms but focusing always on the act of looking, a conversation with the eye of the beholder. Since 2017 they have been practicing under the name “The School of Looking” to reflect this overarching programme of their work.
There is a growing awareness that the arts community is uniquely placed to develop conversations around climate change and to generate positive creative action. Collaborating with 40 artists across the country, Anne & Denis navigated Ireland’s inland waterways aboard the Mayfly, flagship of the Eco Showboat project, meeting artists, activists, scientists and communities to spark climate action. In 2022 they travelled south to north from Limerick to Enniskillen using only solar power. In 2023 they undertook a zero carbon journey to the east - along the Shannon, Grand Canal and Barrow - from Askeaton on the Shannon’s Atlantic estuary to Howth Harbour on the Irish Sea…
