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Willie Doherty
Same Difference
3 – 26 October 1990
Martello Street
On 19th November the British Government imposed the Broadcast Media Ban on Sinn Fein and seven other proscribed Republican and Loyalist organisations. The ban was justified at the time as a necessary measure to starve the IRA of the oxygen supply of publicity.
However in the absence of media exposure the IRA has not disappeared and the media has become the site where long-standing and entrenched attitudes are reinforced and go unchallenged on a daily basis. This comes at a time when the IRA has escalated its campaign in Britain and Europe and is intent on sickening British public opinion, in the words of Margaret Thatcher, ‘Bringing it home’.
Same Difference, Willie Doherty’s new work for Matt’s Gallery, is a slide projection piece with text, which uses four projectors, projecting a static image with changing text onto two of the gallery walls.
Same Difference uncovers the emotive use of language which surrounds the media image of Ireland and the IRA in the propaganda war for hearts and minds. This work attempts to break the silence of the media ban, which as a solution ends up evading the very issues which have caused it to be a problem in the first place.
Artist profile
Further exhibitions at Matt’s Gallery
Willie Doherty
Remnant
9 October – 10 November 2024
Nine Elms
Willie Doherty
Loose Ends
5 – 30 July 2017
Decima Street
Patrick Goddard, Sally O’Reilly, Alison Turnbull and Willie Doherty
Blackrock Residency 2016
3 May – 2 July 2016
Blackrock
Willie Doherty
UNSEEN
27 September 2013 – 4 January 2014
City Factory Gallery, Northern Ireland
Willie Doherty
Photo/text/85/92
18 April – 27 May 2012
Copperfield Road
Willie Doherty
Replays: Selected video works, 1995-2007
23 January – 16 March 2008
Copperfield Road
Willie Doherty
Retraces
23 January – 17 March 2002
Copperfield Road
Willie Doherty
same old story
11 June – 3 August 1997
Copperfield Road
Willie Doherty
The Only Good One is a Dead One
10 November 1993 – 30 January 1994
Copperfield Road
In the shop
Willie Doherty
Remnant, 2024
Publication
£15.00
Willie Doherty
Buried, 2009
Publication
£25.00
Willie Doherty
Disturbance, 2011
Publication
£25.00 (5 left)
Willie Doherty
Out Of Position, 2007
Publication
£25.00
Willie Doherty
Ghost Story, 2007
Publication
£30.00
Willie Doherty
The Visitor, 2008
Publication
£25.00
Willie Doherty
The Only Good One Is A Dead One, 1996
Publication
£15.00
Willie Doherty
Anthology of Time-Based Works, 2007
Publication
£25.00
Willie Doherty
False Memory, 2002
Publication
£30.00
Willie Doherty
Extracts from a file, 2001
Publication
£50.00 (3 left)
Willie Doherty
How It Was, 2001
Publication
£20.00
Willie Doherty
Unseen, 2013
Publication
£25.00
Willie Doherty
Same Old Story, 1997
Publication
£17.50
Willie Doherty
No Smoke Without Fire, 1996
Publication
£15.00
Willie Doherty
Flyover: Ghost Walk, 1985, 2012
EditionPrint
£120.00
Willie Doherty
Loose Ends VII, 2016
EditionPrint
£450.00
Willie Doherty
Derry, 1985, 2012
EditionPrint
Sold out
Willie Doherty
Dead End, 2024
Edition10% off
£1,080.00
Willie Doherty
Partial View, 1993
Publication
£25.00