Lecturer, Photography


Room: Ruskin 010

Email: duncan.ganley@anglia.ac.uk

Personal website: www.duncanganley.com

Duncan Ganley's research activity

Duncan Ganley's main field of practice and research is in lens-based media and installation. His research imperatives are focused on the extent to which our experience of the real is informed by the language of fiction. Utilizing the forms of the photograph, the screen and the museum, his work investigates how our knowledge, understanding and reaction to cultural phenomena is being constantly re-framed, distorted and fragmented.

By adopting the role of 'Archivist/Researcher', Ganley's work investigates the fictive lives of a film director, actress and movie studio. Extrapolating this narrative in each subsequent installation / body of work, various aspects of the mythologies of the director?s great, unfinished (and unseen) films, are presented. By re-contextualizing these 'cultural fragments' (photographs, film posters, objects, film clips) using the forms of institutional presentation, photographic series or the documentary film, the works and their mode of address act as both visual framework and self-referential critique.

His recently completed the one-hour docudrama film 'midnight, mid-Atlantic?' following an artist's residency in Reykjavik, Iceland, has been screened in the USA. He is currently developing ideas toward a new film work through research at the Eadweard Muybridge Archive in London. Ganley's work has been recently published in the fine art and literary journal 'Gulf Coast', published by the University of Houston. His work has been acquired by various corporations and institutions, including Deutsche Bank and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He is represented by Inman Gallery, Houston, USA.

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