Slua
Nua artists are from different nationalities, age groups and thus
different viewpoints. The members are Sandra Petit-Frere, Ben
Pateman, Lynda Tobin-Howes and Helena Zeeman. This exhibition
is a comment on current social issues regarding women’s
identity from religion to feminism and how in this post-feminist
era, 40 years since the construction of modern feminist thought
began, women view themselves. The challenge to the artists and
community lies in visiting our own convictions and often conflicting
understanding of women’s role in the community and society.
We want to look at how mothers' roles have changed and at women’s
sense of worth and identity in a society that is moving away from
a religious value system towards a materialistic one and also
how most young women regard feminism as yesterdays fashion, an
antiquated philosophy that hangs neglected like the hippy beads
in the back of their mothers' closets. But the philosophy of feminism
is not dead, all of us to one degree or another have become feminists.
Works
will be on display from 28th of July. Opening night celebrations
are on Thursday 31st July from 6 - 9pm.
Opening
times: Monday to Friday, 11am - 4.30pm | Sunday
and Bank Holiday Monday 12 - 4.30pm.
For
further information contact Sandra Petit-Frere: 086-8583832.
Email:
Sandra Petit-Frere Petitfrere.sandra@gmail.com
Email:
Ben Pateman benpateman@hotmail.com
Email:
Helena Zeeman hylein@o2.ie
Email:
Lynda Tobin-Howes rooihare@gmail.com