THE Hunt Museum’s exhibition of textile artist Ciara Harrison’s work is on display in the Prologue Room until August 18. This features exquisite embroidered portraits of seven women who shared one destiny: they were all widowed by the events of the Easter Rebellion 1916.
Using a remarkable process involving the transfer of charcoal drawings from photographs to cotton organdie, the work includes a portrait of Kathleen Clarke (nee Daly) born in Limerick in 1878, widow of the rebel leader Thomas Clarke.
Work is on loan with the permission of the Little Museum of Dublin. This unusual show was opened by writer Marita Conlon-McKenna, author of the best selling novel ‘Rebel Sisters’.
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