In conclusion of the IMMA Collection: Freud Project, we are delighted to present Soul Outsider a new piece of music composed by renowned London-based, Northern Irish composer Deirdre Gribbin and performed by Crash Ensemble.
Entitled Soul Outsider, Gribbin has focused on Lucian Freud’s female portraits reflecting on relationships between sitter and artist and the inner self laid bare. Her interpretation is spun through an interwoven narrative: ‘Night Painting’, ‘Human Animal’ and ‘Under Eyes’ featuring Crash Ensemble, Ireland’s most respected and internationally recognized new music ensemble. IMMA is grateful to the Arts Council for enabling this work through an Arts Council Commission Fund.
The IMMA Collection: Freud Project in IMMA’s Garden Galleries, marks a major five-year initiative for IMMA. Fifty-two works by Lucian Freud have been lent to the Museum’s Collection until 2021.
This is the first time that IMMA has dedicated a series of galleries to the long-term display of works by a single artist. In creating the dedicated Freud Centre in IMMA’s Garden Galleries we have created a space for looking, thinking, and learning, with programmes that provoke new reflection on Freud’s work and what it means in the contemporary world.
Throughout the five-year period exhibitions, artists’ commissions, curated talks and events, learning programmes and research partnerships have revealed new perspectives on Lucian Freud as a painter and also as an excavator of the human condition and the inner self.
