Roger Palmer

About The Artist

Roger Palmer exhibited at The Cut in May/June 2012, and contributed to the SENSE OF PLACE on-line only exhibition in 2020/21.

Following the Starry Plough 2015-2019 (for Tony Casement)
 
In 2021, the centenary of Irish independence, Following the Starry Plough invites reflection on a century of change on the island of Ireland through map-diagrams and silver gelatin photographs.
 
The Starry Plough was the flag flown by the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising.

The flag, comprising seven stars of The Plough asterism superimposed on a plough and sword motif, proposed that a free Ireland would control its own destiny ‘from the plough to the stars’.  

In 1934 a new version of the Starry Plough flag was designed for the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union.

Comprising seven white stars on a blue ground, it was subsequently adopted as the flag of the Irish trades’ union and labour movement. 
 
By superimposing the 1934 version of the Starry Plough flag on a map of Ireland, the positioning of its stars identified seven random zones in which to search for sites for making photographs.

In September 2015, Roger Palmer spent three days driving each of the seven star-shaped zones, beginning in the south and ending in the one zone located in Northern Ireland.

A single picture was eventually selected from many images made in each zone.

The locations of these images and their positions in the star-zones are presented as a second map-diagram.    

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