Dr Nathan O’Donnell, Freud Research Fellow, IMMA / Trinity College, Dublin, presents a lunchtime talk on selected works comprising current exhibition, Life Above Everything: Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats. O’Donnell explores specific works in the exhibition Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats and shares the highlights of his latest research on Lucian Freud’s practice.

Further Information 
IMMA Collection: Freud Project is a major five-year initiative for IMMA, where fifty-two works by painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011) are on loan by private lenders to the museum’s Collection. During this unique project, IMMA presents a series of Freud-related exhibitions each year. Life above Everything is the fourth exhibition to be presented as part of the series.

About Speaker
Dr Nathan O’Donnell is the Irish Research Council Enterprise Postdoctoral Fellow, Freud Project – a two-year programme of research in relation to the IMMA Collection: Freud Project. Based between IMMA and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin, O’Donnell explores Lucian Freud’s relationship to Ireland, examining his relationships with Irish artists and writers, the time he spent in Ireland in the 1940s and 50s, and his later interactions with Irish emigrants in London.

Dr Nathan O’Donnell is a writer and researcher with a scholarly background in twentieth-century British art and magazine publishing. He is one of the co-editors of Paper Visual Art Journal, and he publishes on contemporary art here and elsewhere, including The Dublin Review, Gorse, Apollo: The International Art Magazine, The Irish Times and Architecture Ireland. He has been the recipient of a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council Ireland, as well as artist commissions from IMMA and South Dublin County Council. He also teaches part-time as part of the MA Art in the Contemporary World at National College of Art & Design, Dublin, and his first book, on Wyndham Lewis’s art criticism, is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.

Image Credits: Jack B. Yeats, White Shower, 1928 © Estate of Jack B. Yeats, DACS London / IVARO Dublin, 2018. Image courtesy of The Model, home of The Niland Collection.

This talk took place on Friday 08 Nov 2019 at IMMA

Life Above Everything Lucian Freud Project

LUNCHTIME TALK BY NATHAN O’DONNELL - Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats

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LUNCHTIME TALK BY NATHAN O’DONNELL - Lucian Freud and Jack B. Yeats

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