These unique filmed portraits premiered in the major solo exhibition KEEPER, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2018). The exhibition title refers to Dunsmore's art project and extensive archive KEEPER, comprising artworks and gathered material relating to the lived experience of Northern Ireland.
John Hume and David Trimble were jointly awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland."
Hume and Trimble were not the first recipients to receive the award. In 1977, two women, Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Betty Williams (1943 –2020), were jointly awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.In 1976, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown (1943 – 2019), founded The Peace People, a cross-community grassroots movement dedicated to ending the sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Video Portrait, 2017. Edition of 3 + 1 AP
Mairead Corrigan Maguire was filmed in 2017, in the Peace House, Belfast. Mairead continues to work on peace issues internationally and was one of the founders of The Nobel Women’s Initiative in 2006. Edition 1, housed in the Arts Council of Ireland Collection.
John Hume, 1998 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Video Portrait, 2005.
John Hume (18 January 1937 – 3 August 2020) was a key figure behind the Belfast / Good Friday Agreement in 1998, which ended decades of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. He joined the Northern Irish civil rights movement in the late 1960s and was Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party from 1979 to 2001. Hume shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble and was later awarded the Martin Luther King Peace Award and the International Gandhi Peace Prize.
David Trimble, 1998 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Video Portrait, 2017.
David Trimble (15 October 1944 – 25 July 2022), as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party David Trimble was a key figure in the signing of the 1998 Belfast / Good Friday Agreement, which realised self-government for Northern Ireland under a power-sharing arrangement. It established the Northern Ireland Assembly of which Trimble became First Minister in November 1999. He shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume. He became Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey in 2006.
The portraits of John Hume and David Trimble form part of the 14 portrait artwork AGREEMENT (2004 - 2023).
Photographic portrait of Mairead Corrigan Maguire from the 2017 filmed portrait artwork. Edition of 10, + 2 AP. 2021. Edition 1, collection of Linen Hall Museum, Belfast.