HERstory 2020 — Art X Science

Anne Acheson

The sculptor who changed medical history

by Phoebe Todd

HERstory

by Louise O'Boyle

Lilian Bland

Ireland’s first female aviator

by Elle McGreevy

Avril Shipway

Aimee’s grandmother passed away in 2018 at the age of 92. For HERstory, Aimee has manipulated images of her grandmother that were taken in a photo booth in the 1930s.

by Aimee Nelson

Avril Shipway

Aimee’s grandmother passed away in 2018 at the age of 92. For HERstory, Aimee has manipulated images of her grandmother that were taken in a photo booth in the 1930s.

by Aimee Nelson

Avril Shipway

Aimee’s grandmother passed away in 2018 at the age of 92. For HERstory, Aimee has manipulated images of her grandmother that were taken in a photo booth in the 1930s.

by Aimee Nelson

Bell Hooks

Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name Bell Hooks, is an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist.

by Tanith MacLynn-Hill

Cynthia Longfield

Entomologist and world traveller

by Elle McGreevy

Brigid

Ireland’s triple goddess and matron Saint

by Teresa Lyle

Grace O'Malley

The pirate queen of Ireland

by Rachel Sproule

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who, as a postgraduate student, co-discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.

Susan McCrory

Leader in the Falls Women’s Centre, Belfast

by Louise O’Boyle

An Inspiring Life

In this image Kathryn has depicted a close family friend who has lived an inspiring life.

Mo Mowlam

Member of the UK Labour Party and Northern Ireland’s Secretary of State from 1997, and at the time of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

by Louise O’Boyle

Your cousin or Your sister

by Kathryn McKinney

Brigid

Ireland’s triple goddess and matron Saint. In this image the text of Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Punishment’ is inscribed across her hair. Signposting the treatment of women from prehistoric to contemporary times.

In the past, knights prayed to Brigid for her protection as they went into battle. For many women today Brigid’s protection is still needed.

by Louise O’Boyle

Saorise

by Tanith MacLynn-Hill

Five Derry Peace Women

by Teresa Lyle

Macha

Irish war goddess

by Phoebe Todd

Belfast School of Art, Ulster University staff and students submitted images to be included in the HERSTORY Light Festival 2020. The gallery above shows those images selected for inclusion. If you click on the images below, you will be taken to each of the creators own websites.

Teresa Lyle

Ellen McGreevy

Kathryn McKinney

Aimee Nelson

Louise O'Boyle

Rachel Sproule

Phoebe Todd

Selections of the images will be projected onto the exterior facades of Belfast City Hall (Sunday 2nd February from 6.30pm to 8pm) and the Bullitt Hotel, Belfast (Friday 31st January to Sunday 2nd February, from 6pm to midnight each night). In addition these images will be projected at various locations within Belfast School of Art buildings on Friday 31st January 2020.

Kildare Cathedral, 10th February 2020

Belfast School of Art Ulster University

Belfast City Hall..Ulster Museum..Titanic Museum..Bullitt Hotel

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