Artangel s Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris to step down in 2022
Michael Morris and James Lingwood. Photo: Julian Abrams.
LONDON
.-Artangels Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris have announced their decision to step down from the organisation which they have led for 30 years.
Since they became Co-Directors in 1991, Artangel has generated some of the most widely discussed art of recent times and is one of the most consistently admired cultural organisations, respected by artists and audiences alike in Britain and beyond.
Since 1991, James and Michael have produced over 125 projects including Rachel Whitereads House, Michael Landys Breakdown, Jeremy Dellers The Battle of Orgreave, Gregor Schneiders Die Familie Schneider, Francis Alyss Seven Walks and Roger Hiornss Seizure, and drawn audiences to a wide range of places from the empty Reading Prison to the Palace of Westminster, the west coast of Iceland and the island of Portland, downtown D
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The proposed project takes as its starting point the paintings of English artists Rita Donagh and Ralph Lillford, both of whom made work directly related to Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. Crucially, Lillford had made regular visits to Belfast during this time, contrasting to Donagh’s relatively distanced approach, thus raising questions about the necessary proximity required for an artist to effectively and meaningfully respond to the events their work addresses.
At this same time, artists based here were also responding directly to the political and social unrest, and in 1993 the Doubleband Films documentary ‘The Trouble With Art’ brought focus to Northern Irish artists dealing with the social and political conditions of their time. As a result, the film revealed a more direct and embedded approach to artistic production, with those featured commenting on the commitment and effort required to being an artist in Northern Ireland. Twenty-sev