Rita Duffy

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  Rita Duffy

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  11 April 2008: Pictured at the presentation of Translink's Ulster in Bloom Art Competition is internationally acclaimed artist Rita Duffy from Belfast, Alisha Bothwell from Hunterhouse College who was awarded Highly Commended in the year 9 category, Sean McGreevy, Acting Special Services Manager and Veronica Palmer OBE Chairman.

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  Artist and RUA President, Rita Duffy and son Conor Kelly, climb on board Metro Service 266 with entries for the RUA 127th Annual Art Exhibition being held in the Titanic Drawing Offices. Artist and RUA President, Rita Duffy and son Conor Kelly, climb on board Metro Service 266 with entries for the RUA 127th Annual Art Exhibition being held in the Titanic Drawing Offices.
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  RUA President Rita Duffy said: "We are in the process of transforming the Titanic Drawing Offices into a major gallery for the 127th RUA Exhibition.

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  Duffy takes over RUA / Dennett to Arts Council and Kelly to VAI / Hirst drips / Fonz in bronze (Friday 28 September 2007)
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  Rita Duffy new president of RUA
  
  Rita Duffy, well known chronicler in paint of the tougher side of Irish society, the Troubles included, is to be the new President of the Royal Ulster Academy in Belfast. There is talk that the RUA may set up its own premises, perhaps along the lines of the RHA in Dublin (or indeed the RA in London), but for the moment it can perhaps be considered the 'anchor tenant' of the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast. Indeed, there was much debate last year about the possibility of the RUA running the Ormeau Baths Gallery, following its sudden closure earlier in 2006; there was a groundswell of opinion at that time against the idea.
  
  In the current issue of Circa , Vikki Bell brings together the work of Duffy and Argentinian artist Daniel García.

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  Artist and RUA President Rita Duffy and her son Conor Kelly climb on board Metro Service 26/26B with entries for the RUA 127th Annual Art Exhibition being held in the Titanic Drawing Offices.

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  Inside, Gail Ritchie, artist and development manager for the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts (RUA), and Rita Duffy, artist and president of the RUA, giggled and ducked below the windows until the party moved on.
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  Duffy describes watching as a cascade of water crashed through one of the wrought-iron ceilings, bringing the plaster down after a month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours last month. She worried briefly about the hundreds of vulnerable, beautiful things entrusted to her and protected only by bubblewrap and cardboard - and then got back to hammering in picture-hooks.
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  Duffy says that when she first stood in Pirrie's office and saw the shelves stacked with original drawings of Harland Wolff ships, she knew this was the place for the exhibition. Pirrie, as it happens, founded the Ulster Sketchers' Club, which became the RUA. Duffy took the train to Dublin and asked Mike Murphy, of Harcourt Developments, to lend the RUA the space.
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  "A sort of dull lack of belief has taken root here over the past 30 years or so," says Duffy, who took over as RUA president last year. "I want to reposition the RUA as a force for change, cohesion and positivity."
  
  There is, she says, a snobbery towards the academy among some "professional" artists: "They see it as stuffy and full of amateur, Sunday artists." But she's inspired by the example of the Royal Hibernian Academy in the Republic.
  
  "Fifteen years ago, the RHA was in the same boat as we are now," she says.
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  "A high proportion of art students are women," Duffy says. "Then most of them just disappear.
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  There is a sensitive Belfast streetscape by Adele Pound and an atmospheric light installation by Emma Donaldson, which looks as if it has been trawled up from the Titanic . "She specifically asked for one of the shabbier rooms," Duffy says.
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  Duffy and Ritchie are bringing a subversive sense of humour to their curation.
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  "We had an expert on flora out there, and she has discovered weeds from all over the world that must have come into Belfast on ships and boats," says Duffy.

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  Major exhibition of Rita Duffy's work approaches Ulster from a different angle By staff reporter - 01/04/08
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  Law enforcement in Northern Ireland, and one of the most iconic and controversial structures associated with the ,Troubles' , are just two of the themes being explored in a thought provoking exhibition of works by Rita Duffy , which will be shown in Ireland for the first time this month.
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  Rita who is also President of the Royal Ulster Academy of Art explains, "I feel the timing of the exhibition is important , and highlights the creative journey I have taken from looking at the watchtowers in South Armagh.
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  Pictured: "Belfast Burkha study no. 3" by Rita Duffy
  
  The Rita Duffy Exhibition is showing from Thursday 3rd April until Thursday 20th April.

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  The judging panel is prestigious: Rita Duffy, president of the RUA, Stephen McKenna, president of the RHA, and Gemma Tipton, "international art critic and writer" who often graces the pages of Circa.

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  RUA members and regular exhibitors provided artwork for War on Want's Art Aid Auction organised by Eamon Quinn from War on Want NI and former RUA President, Rita Duffy.
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  Contributing artists included Gary Devon, Ivor Coburn, Rita Duffy, Clement McAleer, Jack Pakenham, Colin Davidson, Neil Shawcross, Ros Harvey, Rosie McGurran, TP Flanagan

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