Revolutionising Art in Ireland: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone - By Dr Sighle Bhreathnach Lynch

The lives of Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone intertwined professionally and personally throughout their careers, from the first time they met in 1917 as art students in London. They continued training together in Paris, first under cubist André Lhote and then under cubist and theorist, Albert Gleizes. The latter was passionate about producing a pure abstract art, unfettered by the ‘real’ world and its myriad of detailing. 

His idea of stripping the painted world back to the universal shapes of nature itself, to acknowledge the spiritual rather than the secular, appealed to the religiously minded young women. This talk considers their careers, both jointly and separately, and the way their innovative artistic style, slowly but surely, put modernism on the Irish art map.

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