Joseph Noonan-Ganley

Joseph Noonan-Ganley is an Irish artist who visited us to present his work and practises as an artist. He was an individual who challenges the social constructs of texture and sexuality within art and surrounding the artists who produce these pieces.
His main project was focused around the life works of Joseph Cornell who was an artist who passed away in the 1970's. Noonan-Ganley produced artwork around the comments this artist received throughout his career he found in his archive. He created a film called the 'Sess pool of rapture' where he visited Cornells's hometown and interviewed his close friends, here is where he received 30 hours of footage Joseph Cornell recorded while he was at the peak of his career.

I enjoyed Joseph Noonan-Ganley's lecture due to the individual, qualities of his film he created. I have never seen such an artistic directorial style in a video combining the simple structure of voice and physical items. This lecture has made me think more in-depth about artists and their personal lives, how this may have affected their work and influenced certain greatness within artwork we may have never known about.