The National Gallery’s Tuesday Talk is Irish Women and Art, 1916 and highly acclaimed historian and novelist Sinead McCoole (Easter Widows) will be leading the charge.
Much of the discussion will be spread across a number of both central and peripheral figures from the time, some completely forgotten and others remembered with vague recollection. In a world oft dominated by men, two of the forgotten ones being featured here will be; Evie Hone the stain glass artist (and also a remarkable painter) and Mainie Jellett who was one of our very first abstract artists. Light will be shed on the themes of their works and the growth of the art as a whole.
This is the beginning of Modernist art for us and this is their struggle right through 1916 to 1922’s birth of a nation and beyond. Come and see how the times sculpted our vision and our art for better or for worse.
The National Gallery, Merrion Square W, Dublin 2, 12th April, 10.30-11.15am
Free Admission. For general information click the link
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