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Artist and researcher Liz Cullinane draws on her biographical investigations into Swanzy’s life long career and shares some of the most fascinating discoveries to emerge out of the artist’s own records, archives, and accounts from those closest to her. This talk provides a valuable picture of the times in which many of Swanzy’s paintings were created, as well as the rich social history behind some of the artist’s less familiar styles and developments that comprise several rooms of the IMMA exhibition.
Liz Cullinane is a researcher, artist and designer who works in a multi-disciplinary practice. Her research investigates the career of the Irish painter Mary Swanzy. It extends into the exhibition record and biographical history of her life to evaluate Swanzy’s career in the context of the development of Modernism in Ireland in the 1920s and examines the later paintings in the broader British and European sphere of Surrealism. Cullinane’s initial research used a genealogical model to extend and test earlier work by J. Campbell (1986) and F.Brennan (1989). Birth records, wills, census returns and archives were searched to enlarge knowledge of Swanzy’s social background. In evaluating Swanzy’s career, as well as interviews with the remaining people who knew Swanzy; many of the issues around national identity and influences of the more immediate nature are considered.