Barbara I | Brian O'Doherty, Patrick Ireland

Brian O'Doherty, b.1928, Patrick Ireland, b.1972

Barbara I1976

Barbara I is a 1976 work by Brian O'Doherty and Patrick Ireland. It has a duration of 3min.12. It is not currently on display in IMMA. It is part of the IMMA Permanent Collection.

Medium	Video
Duration	3min.12
Credit Line	IMMA Collection: Donation, 2012
Item Number	IMMA.3736
Not on view
Tags	Miscellaneous Moving Image 1976 Brian O'Doherty Patrick Ireland

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Brian O'Doherty, Patrick Ireland, Barbara I, 1976, Video, Duration: 3min.12, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, 2012

Brian O'Doherty

Brian O'Doherty b.1928

Brian O’Doherty was born in Ireland and is now based in New York. When he left Dublin in 1957, O’Doherty was a qualified medical doctor and emerging artist, and is now renowned as an artist, writer, critic, television host, filmmaker and educator.

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Patrick Ireland

Patrick Ireland 1972–2008

During the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1972, Brian O'Doherty, in a performance before 30 invited witnesses and assisted by artists Robert Ballagh and Brian King, undertook to sign his artworks Patrick Ireland 'until such time as the British military presence is removed from Northern Ireland'. After 36 years of making art as Patrick Ireland, O'Doherty reclaimed his birth name with the symbolic burial of his alter ego in the grounds of IMMA on the afternoon of Tuesday 20 May 2008.

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