
Talk
Sunday Talk: Abstraction and empathy - the life and art of Evie Hone
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Lecture Theatre
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Admission |
Free admission |
Join us for this special free talk with Joseph McBrinn, Reader, Belfast School of Art.
In 1955, only a matter of months after Evie Hone’s death, when C.P. Curran commented that her turn to stained glass in the 1930s was a result of her dissatisfaction with abstraction, he set in motion a framework of interpretation of Hone’s art that has lasted up to the present day. Many of the radical and complex ideas and sources that underpinned her work have, as a result, gone largely undetected. The aim of this talk is to map some of the key events and influences that shaped Evie Hone’s life and art and account for the international reputation she enjoyed during her lifetime that has now fallen into eclipse.
This talk is presented in association with our exhibition Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. The Art of Friendship.
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