STILL, We Work’ is a group exhibition commissioned by the National Women’s Council of Ireland and touring the country. It takes a contemporary look at women and work and will open at Dance Limerick, John’s Square on Monday 12 next at 4pm (curator Valerie O’Connor’s talk precedes at 3pm).
This show of mixed media works will feature at two other venues, LCGA on Pery Square and The Hunt Museum.
Michelle Horrigan is curator for the Limerick station of this tour, with help from Noelle Collins. She says, “The artworks are sited…to create a trail throughout Limerick, and a tactile way of experiencing the city while contemplating each particular artwork”.
The Council makes the observation that “integral to ‘Still, We Work’ are the intrinsic links between women’s work and the inequalities that women widely experience in society.
“The exhibition is a unique collaboration of artists and NWCI, which provides a platform for women and artists from a diversity of backgrounds, to come together”.
On Tuesday 13 in Dance Limerick, John’s Square at 3pm, there will be a talk on Lady Mary Heath by Lindie Naughton, author of ‘Lady Icarus – The Life of Irish Aviator Lady Mary Heath’. The aristocrat was the 1920s pioneering aviator from West Limerick,
“In 1928, Lady Heath, born in Newcastle West, flew her tiny open-cockpit biplane from Cape Town to London, the first solo pilot to make the trip. It took her three months in an epic adventure that included forced landings, bureaucratic bungling, hostile natives and a bullet or two.
“Never one to sit still for long, Lady Mary had already pioneered women’s athletics in Britain and helped introduce women’s track and field to the Olympics. Hear more about her contribution to a liberal understanding of women’s role in society from Lindie Naughton, author of ‘Lady Icarus’.
