The Circle of Friends women's group in Moyross worked with me to design and produce a banner work over a number of weeks in the run-up to the Laboratory of Common Interest event-space in April 2019.
The women proposed that they themselves are a model of the strength of women in overcoming obstacles to equality and social justice. As a result of this we worked on a series of embroidered portraits of the women at different stages of their lives. We exchanged skills in the areas of drawing, sewing and embroidery.
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This led us to design the banner as a backdrop for a play that had been written previously by the women, A Political History of Our Bodies. The group performed the play during the Laboratory, as part of a day organised around the idea of care-as-commons, a key theme in the work of the great theorist of the Commons, Silvia Federici.
Portrait of Tricia
Portrait of Mary as a child
Portrait of Eileen
