BBC News:Good Friday Agreement: Exhibit features video portraits of leaders. Robbie Meredith. March, 2023.+
UTV News:Good Friday Agreement architects feature in new Belfast video portrait exhibition. Sarah McKinley, April, 2023. +
Irish Times:Video exhibition of Belfast Agreement negotiators opens at Ulster University. PA April, 2023. +
Irish News: New exhibition celebrates Mo Mowlam and other key GFA negotiators. David Roy, April, 2023. +
gcn: Stunning ‘Selfie’ Exhibition Charts Transition of 74 Year-old Galway Woman, Christine Beynon. Brian Finnegan. 2018.+
e-flux (USA) Amanda Dunsmore: Becoming Christine in partnership with Christine Beynon. May, 2017.+
BBC NEWS / World Service:Transgender woman's journey in selfies. June, 2017.+
RTÉ Radio 1 - Today programme.
Christine Beynon, a 74 year old transgender woman has been hiding most of her life. Cormac O'hEadhra. 2017. +
Irish Times ‘I’m the oldest transgender person in Co Galway’ ‘Becoming Christine’ highlights woman’s transgender journey. Rosita Boland, 2017. +
Reviews
CIRCA Art Magazine (Ireland) Amanda Dunsmore, KEEPER. The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. "It’s unusual to observe well-known political faces on screen and for them not to utter a word". Laurence McKeown. April, 2018.+
this is tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine (UK) Amanda Dunsmore, KEEPER, The Hugh Lane Gallery. ‘Keeper’ itself is the project initiated by Dunsmore in 1998 when she was selected as the Maze Prison’s Artist-in-Residence. Review by Aidan Kelly Murphy Published May 14, 2018.+
Irish Times:Art in focus: David Trimble by Amanda Dunsmore. Adrian Dunne. April, 2018.+
Independent: (Irelend) 'I'm interested in the legacy of individuals' An exhibition opens in Dublin this week that reflects on the lessons and imagery of the Good Friday Agreement. Hilary A White met its creator, artist Amanda Dunsmore. 2018.+
Irish Examinar:Amanda Dunsmore has cleverly subverted the very idea of a portrait in a series of video works that take Irish public figures as their subjects. Marc O'Sullivan. 2014.+
Talks and Presentations
Good Friday Agreement 25th Anniversary Event at University College Cork (Ireland) University College Cork is delighted to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement with an event examining GFA25 and the Island of Ireland. This event took place on Monday, 22 May 2023. Panel discussion ‘GFA25 in all its dimensions’ +
On The Record: Reflections on The Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement) The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the National Archives, Ireland present a panel discussion to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of The Belfast Agreement (GFA) offering a range of perspectives on official state records relating to the Multi-Party Agreement and the British-Irish Agreement. April, 2023.+
Portrait of a Nation: Art, Politics and the Anglo-Irish TreatyThis conference explores the intersection between art and politics in the context of the birth of the new Irish state. National Museum of Ireland / Hugh Lane Gallery. April, 2022.+
