Ending Violence Against Women and Girls: Free Exhibition

This 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 powerful exhibition not only gives insights into the lived history of Violence Against Women and Girls in Northern Ireland, it also uses work by artists, writers and young people as an imaginative springboard to help us understand the profound impact of that violence on women and girls and the urgent need for it to stop.

Image: (c) The Linen Hall and Ursula Burke, from the sculpture ‘House’ by Ursula Burke

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.