Tag: Protest and Remembrance
-
Protest and Remembrance: Miriam de Búrca | Joy Gerrard | Mary Griffiths | Barbara Walker
Drawings by four contemporary female artists explore notions of protest and remembrance, from anti-Brexit marches to unconsecrated Irish burial sites, and forgotten black soldiers to former collieries in the north of England
-
Barbara Walker – interview: ‘From the moment I make the first mark, I’ve already said goodbye’
Walker scours archives for images on which to base her drawings of black soldiers. She talks here as she creates a wall drawing for the show Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea
-
Mary Griffiths – interview: ‘I extrapolate a drawing that has some resonance with part of the structure I’ve been looking at’
In Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, with her large abstract works of plywood, acrylic gesso and graphite, Griffiths aims to capture the splendour of the working-class engineering at a former colliery
-
Joy Gerrard – interview: ‘I’m interested in how we witness and interpret these events’
In her depictions of mass protests, Gerrard aims to make visible those who attend. For Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, she focuses on anti-Trump and anti-Brexit marches
-
Miriam de Búrca – interview: ‘The sites themselves are very charged: very beautiful but also very tragic’
With her detailed drawings of plants growing on the graves of Ireland’s excommunicates and other unblessed souls, De Búrca, now on show in Protest and Remembrance at Alan Cristea, hopes to restore the dignity of those the Catholic church abandoned
