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Explore local and global concerns of social justice and gender roles in contemporary Ireland’s art
Access contemporary art attending to conflict, justice and belonging in Northern Ireland
Consider gender and practice in portraits of Ireland’s female artists
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This book mines the space where aesthetic expression meets lived experience for Irish artists Rita Duffy, Mairéad McClean, Paula McFetridge and Ursula Burke. Portrait essays woven with photographs, document each artist’s coming of age in Ireland and Northern Ireland, in the context of her emerging practice. As individuals, their work considers infringements on human rights, systemic violence, gender roles and the negotiation of figurative and literal borders and boundaries. Together, they interrogate past and present conflict and emergence from conflict, locally and globally. Their critical work is threaded with hope in the context of past and present political fragmentation. Works considered include Rita Duffy’s paintings, drawings and animation like Siege, The Emperor Has No Clothes and Anatomy of Hope; Mairéad McClean’s films No More, Broadcast and Making Her Mark; Paula McFetridge’s productions like convictions, staged at the Crumlin Road Courthouse, This is What We Sang, performed at the Belfast Synagogue and Belfast Quartered, A Love Story, a promenade through Belfast’s LGBTQ+ underground; and Ursula Burke’s sculptures like Bonfire, Blue Sphinx and Peach Caryatid, and embroidery like The Politicians Frieze.
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“This pioneering study offers rich insights into the visual and theatre arts landscape of Northern Ireland. Keating’s disciplined and purposeful focus on Duffy, McClean, McFetridge and Burke illuminates the variousness of their art activism and political engagement, while also claiming space for the individual aesthetic and public responsibility that characterises this ground-breaking group." (Eve Patten, Director, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
“This book provides great insight into practices of four women, whose work has impacted the Irish cultural scene on both sides of the border. It offers alternative perspectives to traditional art history texts by taking cross cutting, interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of their artistic practice." (Marguerite Nugent, Director of Culture at CV Life Trust, Coventry, UK)Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Portraits of Irish Art in Practice
Book Subtitle: Rita Duffy, Mairéad McClean, Paula McFetridge & Ursula Burke
Authors: Jennifer Keating
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34074-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34073-4Published: 20 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34076-5Due: 03 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34074-1Published: 19 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 195
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour
Topics: Audio-Visual Culture, History of Britain and Ireland