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Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

From left to right: Julie Andrews – Director of The Linen Hall, Maria McManus – Poet, Emma Little-Pengelly – Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Heather Fleming – Artist, and Dawn Watson – Poet and lecturer at the Seamus Heaney Centre at QUB.

On Friday 6th March, The Linen Hall launched the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls exhibition. 

To mark the opening of the exhibition, we were privileged to have Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Emma Little-Pengelly in attendance.

Rebecca Lively – Belfast School of Art

We were also joined by some of the writers, artists and students involved in the project, including Dawn Watson, Heather Fleming and Maria McManus. This event was an opportunity to hear more about the exhibition and about the work that has been produced in response to The Linen Hall’s archives and to learn more about the ongoing Ending Violence Against Women and Girls project.

 

If you were unable to attend the launch, you can watch a video of the full event below:

This powerful new exhibition uses The Linen Hall’s unique archives alongside specially commissioned new work that has been created in response to those archives to address the issue of Violence Against Women and Girls.

The exhibition weaves together a number of strands to explore this theme, including:

  • Items from the library’s political collection and extraORDINARY women archive, which documents and celebrates women’s lives from 1965 to the present.
  • Specially commissioned new work, both poetry and visual art, from three writers and artists – Maria McManus, Dawn Watson and Heather Fleming – in response to the sculpture ‘House’ by Irish artist Ursula Burke, which is part of the library’s collections.
  • New pieces of visual art created specially for this exhibition by almost 40 Illustration students from Belfast School of Art at the University of Ulster in response to curated items form the extraORDINARY women archive.
  • Visual art from schools in response to Wendy Erskine’s novel, The Benefactors.

This exhibition is grant aided by Belfast City Council and the Executive Office. The views expressed are not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Council. The Council does not accept any responsibility or liability for same.

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