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Women Unremembered, 2018

Oonagh Hurley Artist lives in Cork City, Ireland. 

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Hurley explores how life’s memories are reassembled in a fluid and non-linear way. Using old photographs, media images, and stills from old Super 8mm film for inspiration, she exploits the chance elements resulting from pouring and layering paint.

 

A graduate of CIT Crawford College of Art & Design, Hurley has shown work in several galleries in Cork, Dublin, Sligo, Roscommon and Wexford since 2009.

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Women Unremembered: This body of work is about our collective amnesia around women whose significant achievements and / or experiences have often been overlooked, sidelined, airbrushed and ultimately forgotten. They have been rendered invisible over time. 

 

1.  Lilian Bland (1878-1971) Journalist and Aviator. 

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2.  Margaret Cousins (1878-1954) Co-founder of the Irish Womens Franchise League            with Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.

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3.  Lee Krasner (1908-1984)  Abstract Expressionist painter. 

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4.  Rosamund Jacob (1888-1960) Writer and Activist for suffragist, republican and

     socialist causes.

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5.  Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) Chemist. 

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6.  Catherine Walsh Civil Engineer.

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