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Women Artists Action Group
Women Artists Action Group (W.A.A.G.) was an Irish feminist artists group founded with the goal of promoting the profile of women artists from Ireland, which was active from 1987 to 1991. History Women Artists Action Group was founded in 1987 by Pauline Cummins, Breeda Mooney, and Louise Walsh. Cummins served as the group's first chair. It had an equivalent organisation in Northern Ireland, N.I.W.A.A.G. They were founded as a reaction to the perceived lack of representation of women artists in exhibitions in Ireland and to the 1987 "Irish Women Artists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day" exhibition and publication from the National Gallery of Ireland. W.A.A.G. had one exhibition at the Project Arts Centre in 1987, which featured over 90 women artists such as Anne Madden. The show featured over 100 slides of artwork, which later developed into a catalogued slide bank maintained by W.A.A.G. Their second exhibition was held at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (later the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Movements And Ideologies
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Marie Hanlon
Marie Hanlon is a Dublin-based Irish artist working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installation. She has collaborated with Irish composers, most notably Rhona Clarke, in creating works which can be realised in both concert performance and gallery situations. Early life and education Hanlon received her early education from the Brigidine Sisters, Goresbridge, County Kilkenny and later graduated from University College, Dublin (1977) with a BA in English and History of European Painting. In 2018 she received an MA from The National College of Art & Design, Dublin. Hanlon was elected to Aosdána in 2015; Aosdána is the cultural body which recognises major and sustained contributions to the arts in Ireland. Artistic practice In 1988, Hanlon became a member of WAAG – Women Artists Action Group (1987–1991). She exhibited with the group in their first and only show in Ireland, ''Art Beyond Barriers'' at the Irish Museum of Modern A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Organisations Based In Ireland
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Political Art
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Feminist Theory
Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, communication, media studies, psychoanalysis,Chodorow, Nancy J., Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory' (Yale University Press: 1989, 1991) political theory, home economics, literature, education, and philosophy. Feminist theory often focuses on analyzing gender inequality. Themes often explored in feminist theory include discrimination, objectification (especially sexual objectification), oppression, patriarchy,Gilligan, Carol, 'In a Different Voice: Women's Conceptions of Self and Morality' in ''Harvard Educational Review'' (1977)Lerman, Hannah, ''Feminist Ethics in Psychotherapy'' (Springer Publishing Company, 1990) stereotyping, art history and contemporary art, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Artists
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Irish Contemporary Artists
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Kathy Prendergast
Kathy Prendergast (born 1958), is an Irish sculptor, draftsman, and painter. Life Prendergast was born in 1958 in Dublin. She studied at Manor House School, Raheny, and pursued third level studies at the National College of Art & Design, graduating in 1983. She then went to the Royal College of Art, London from 1983 to 1986. She won the Best Young Artist Award in 1995 representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale, having first attended ten years earlier in Paris. Prendergast was also the inaugural recipient of the David and Yuko Juda Foundation Prize. Prendergast is particularly known for her City Drawing project which she began in 1992. She detailed pencil maps of the world's capital cities, now the work is part of the permanent collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in galleries around the world. She has lived in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine O'Reilly
Geraldine O'Reilly (born 1956), also known as Geraldine O'Reilly Hynes, is an Irish painter, drawer and printmaker. She is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. Early life O'Reilly was born in Dublin in 1956 and grew up in Killucan, County Westmeath. Career O'Reilly studied at National College of Art and Design (NCAD, Dublin), graduating in 1982. She received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1989 and was a member of the Women Artists Action Group. She is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and chaired it in 2008. She was elected to Aosdána in 2004. Her work is held at the National Gallery of Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Chester Beatty Library. O'Reilly's work covers topics such as women's history, emigration and "landscapes that reveal something of the history of human interaction." She works in etching and lithography. She has also taught at Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Arbour Hill Prison, NCAD, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Maher
Alice Maher (born 1956) is a contemporary Irish artist working in a variety of media, including sculpture, photography and installation. Education Maher was born in Kilmoyler, near Bansha, County Tipperary and received her early education at Ballydrehid National School and at Coláiste Chríost Rí, Cahir. She later graduated from the University of Limerick and the Crawford College of Art in Cork. Then she undertook an MA at the University of Ulster, Belfast in 1985 and 1986. Maher spent time in San Francisco Art Institute in 1986 as a Fulbright Scholar. Career Maher works in a range of media, often from outside the tradition of fine art and more from the natural and domestic world, such as hair, nettles, bees and thorns. She has explored the themes of childhood and death, such as ''Mnemosyne'', 2003, wherein she creates a bedlike structure constructed from refrigerator coils; when the coils become frosty they gleam a luminous white sheen. She is interested in how identitie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Hurl
Patricia Hurl (born 1943) is an Irish artist. Background Hurl was born in 1943 in Dublin. She had three sisters and one brother. Hr mother died of cancer when Hurl was 17. Hurl's father, born in 1894, was a Catholic from a farming background who grew up along the Derry- Antrim border. He worked as a primary school teacher and was politically active, becoming involved in the Ulster Troubles. Hurls parents moved to Charleston Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin, where they bought their first house. They lived frugally and the family prioritised education. Career Before becoming an artist, Hurl got a job with Williams and Woods, a Dublin confectionery factory, where she worked as a comptometer operator. Hurl attended the National College of Art and Design in 1975 as a mature student and returned to study at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, graduating in 1984 with a first class honours Bachelor of Arts in fine art. In 2000, she completed a Master of Arts in intera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Cummins
Pauline Cummins (born 1949) is an Irish sculptor, painter, performance and video artist. She was a lecturer at the National College of Art and Design from 1992 - 2014. Life Pauline Cummins was born in Dublin in 1949. She studied painting and ceramics at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) from 1966 to 1970. From 1974 to 1975 she was the director of an aid programme in Turkana, Kenya, the Craft Workshop teaching marketing and craft design. In 1975 she co-founded the ceramic studio, the Ashford Pottery in County Wicklow. She moved to Toronto, Canada in 1979, where she focused on painting. Returning to Ireland, her work moved towards video and performance. In 2002 she completed an MA at NCAD. Cummins was a lecturer at the NCAD in the department of sculpture until 2014. Artistic work Cummins' work focuses on identity and gender within communities and social situations. Her first performance, ''Unearthed'', was commissioned by Projects UK in 1988, drawings for w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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