Willie Doherty, Silhouettes, 2024. Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm. 109 x 135.5 cm framed.
![Willie Doherty, Silhouettes, 2024. Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm. 109 x 135.5 cm framed.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/c21ab5d33d447f5df69d288f219ac75277bfe705-3543x2835.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Remnant
9 October – 10 November 2024
Nine Elms
Private View: 6 October 2-5pm
Exhibition Continues: 9 October-10 November 2024
Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Remnant consists of a series of black and white photographic prints, and a multi-channel 4K video layered with an ambient soundtrack and a spoken word voiceover performed by Stephen Rea.
Fusing voice and soundscape with still and moving images, Remnant explores the interconnectedness of place, time, and memory.
In this haunting and immersive work, landscape acts as a repository - a site to construct images and myths of national identity, of self, and of others. With the passage of time, the histories of these places transform, becoming unstable, the fictions of memory.
Remnant investigates remembrance as a measure of time and space, of dislocation and connection, of what is real and what is imagined.
Making a return to black and white, Willie Doherty’s recent works echo his early photographs. However, where those early works often juxtaposed still images with text overlays, here stills and very subtly moving images are overlayed aurally with the artist’s text read aloud.
Infused with melancholy, the works are captivating and demand to be lingered with. While the works may seem less overtly political than earlier pieces they retain echoes of motifs we associate closely with Doherty which pervade the scenes with a sombre feeling of foreboding and disquiet.
Doherty has worked with Matt’s Gallery since 1990. This is his 11th exhibition with us. In 1994, his second show, The Only Good One is a Dead One, became the first moving image work to be nominated for the Turner Prize. Doherty was again nominated in 2003.
Following its exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre, Ireland earlier this year, Remnant will be reconfigured for Matt’s Gallery’s space in Nine Elms.
Remnant at Matt’s Gallery is supported by Culture Ireland and the Willie Doherty Exhibition Circle: Emma and Fred Goltz.
Production of the work was supported by Solstice Arts Centre and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
Willie Doherty is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London; Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich and Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Madrid.
In our shop
A special limited edition print, Dead End, 2024, has been made by the artist to support this exhibition. Only 8 out of the 20 prints remain.
Voice: Stephen Rea
Sound Recording: Beacon Studios
Dublin Sound Mix: Blast Furnace Derry
Production: Spike Wolff
Artist profile
Further exhibitions at Matt’s Gallery
![Loose Ends by undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/659b1bc3953fce4a92325fc4fa793a9e55a8493a-2208x1448.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Loose Ends
5 – 30 July 2017
Decima Street
![Blackrock Residency 2016 by , , and undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/778debd8c37e929edb8ea44d51adb74b92389b0a-750x763.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Patrick Goddard, Sally O’Reilly, Alison Turnbull and Willie Doherty
Blackrock Residency 2016
3 May – 2 July 2016
Blackrock
![UNSEEN by undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/d5b08a1845c590c165e8a4c4069a1b755a1f8df2-1182x665.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
UNSEEN
27 September 2013 – 4 January 2014
City Factory Gallery, Northern Ireland
![Photo/text/85/92 by undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/d183c18db4de0a4be8dda8d1a375bc0e82352d42-6496x3493.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Photo/text/85/92
18 April – 27 May 2012
Copperfield Road
![Replays: Selected video works, 1995-2007 by undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/0ff6de1a7661ef84970b3f7e3cdb99a19a34a6b5-1920x1080.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Replays: Selected video works, 1995-2007
23 January – 16 March 2008
Copperfield Road
Willie Doherty
Retraces
23 January – 17 March 2002
Copperfield Road
![same old story by undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/e66d90aced26b9c07bea56c456d2f7ffa3ffb7d3-1680x1315.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
same old story
11 June – 3 August 1997
Copperfield Road
![The Only Good One is a Dead One by undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/cd7c74933cffcd59c5daccfd74e37ecbef5a29d7-1037x684.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
The Only Good One is a Dead One
10 November 1993 – 30 January 1994
Copperfield Road
![Same Difference by undefined at Matt’s Gallery](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/64407c4f91e2b5d7f0e3a5626cf88060915de301-4202x2870.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Same Difference
3 – 26 October 1990
Martello Street
In the shop
![Unseen, 2013 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/83abd819e60215a2a2570d5958f3269256dbc24e-2923x3418.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Unseen, 2013
Publication
£30.00
![Same Old Story, 1997 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/df95e1bf1c4b12e8fe53211c4ee38673df568e95-3000x4377.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Same Old Story, 1997
Publication
£12.95
![No Smoke Without Fire, 1996 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/8c680e80d68529acf8a5bac22cbf54d4a0cd5ea3-4110x2861.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
No Smoke Without Fire, 1996
Publication
£12.95
![Flyover: Ghost Walk, 1985, 2012 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/3ec454633b94337131d0ede84bd3ad33ae8afd3c-11221x7500.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Flyover: Ghost Walk, 1985, 2012
EditionPrint
£120.00
![Loose Ends VII, 2016 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/8f4791064b06475edacc378350ca9951276ca75f-3169x1287.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Loose Ends VII, 2016
EditionPrint
£450.00
![Derry, 1985, 2012 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/9e682d95a417ddae91ac15ec7385f9df73542322-700x484.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Derry, 1985, 2012
EditionPrint
Sold out
![Dead End, 2024 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/c96726724c4af94215916877bd9fa047e3eb540b-4800x4000.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Dead End, 2024
EditionPrint
£1,200.00
![Partial View, 1993 by undefined](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zje7y6w0/production/ce378b204ba5af44843ee8ac18291aeb2bcdae3b-662x814.jpg?w=6&blur=10)
Willie Doherty
Partial View, 1993
Publication
£14.00