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Portrayals is an exhibition of work recently generated over a six month period during which the artist worked with 16 women from the Star Project in Ballymun. The women who have stabilised their drug use and meet daily, experienced a process of validation by being encouraged to express their own ideas, sentiments and feelings through drawing, collage and video work. Six months into the project, the women were given the opportunity to select a new outfit of clothes, and to participate in hairstyling and makeup sessions and relaxation classes after which their portraits were painted.
These portraits now hang in the Star Project's new centre in the Horizons Building on Balbutcher Lane, after having been on exhibition in the axis centre along with a strong exhibition of the women's own work.
For essay by Mick Wilson please see
www.softsleeper.com/jeanettedoyle.html
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