Significant Objects – In Conversation with Jim McKeever

Nunnery Gallery is pleased to introduce artist Tom Lovelace in conversation with Belfast based photographer Jim McKeever about his current exhibition Significant Objects.
Tom and Jim will be in conversation about Jim’s project Significant Objects, currently showing at the Nunnery. They will discuss the strategies used by Jim to visually respond to narratives of institutional abuse within the care system and the different platforms for disseminating social documentary photography. They will also discuss how artists negotiate multiple and diverse subject matter within one practice. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. 
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About the speakers:
Jim McKeever is a social documentary photographer working in an exhibition/gallery context. He has an MFA and a BA with First Class Honor’s in Photography from the University of Ulster, Belfast School of Art, and is also a co-founder of the Belfast Photo Factory, a non-profit artists’ collective created to provide an environment for emerging photographers. The group promotes photography through interaction with local and international arts communities. He has exhibited in joint and solo exhibitions within the UK, Ireland and Europe.
His current work is based on applying documentary photography in a fine art context to create a contemporary visual narrative.
Tom Lovelace is an artist who lives and works in London. He studied Photography at the Arts University Bournemouth, receiving First Class Honours; and Art History at Goldsmiths College, London. Lovelace shows with Flowers Gallery and first met Jim McKeever in Belfast at his recent his exhibition at Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast.