Alison Lowry‘(A)Dress’, 2017-2018
‘Home Babies’, detail from installation
Date: 2017
Materials: Pate de verre, flock, found objects
Dimensions: Installation dimensions vary.
Each individual dress approx: h72 x w45 x d18 cm
(A) Dress, Millennium Court, Portadown July-August 2017
(A) Dress examines issues that, as a society, we are reluctant to admit happen within our midst; issues such as child abuse, rape and domestic violence. These will be investigated using the dress as a means of exploration.
‘Home Babies’, 2017
Materials: sand cast pate de Verre, flocking
Installation size varies
Installation piece consisting of 9 pate de Verre Christening Robes, glass ‘birth certificates and a monologue of the children names
‘Home Babies’ examines the recent horror of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in County Galway. In 2016, the bodies of 796 children were found ‘buried’ in a disused septic tank. These Homes were State sponsored and run by religious orders. They were widespread in Ireland right up to the late 1990’s. Pregnant unmarried girls were sent to have their babies in secret, so as to not cause their families ‘shame’. The children were subsequently taken away from them and adopted illegally, frequently to the US.
‘Cinderella’s New Normal’, 2017
Materials: fabric, flame worked glass, found objects, ceramic decals, sand carving, led lighting
Dimensions: h2.5m x w1.6m
Fabric dress produced by Una Roddin, Glass droplets by Andrea Spencer
‘A New Skin’, 2017
Materials: slumped and screen printed glass, sand carving, kintsugi, leather work, lighting
Dimensions: h90 x w48 x d40cm
Leather work by Una Burke
’35 I can’ts’, 2017
Materials: cast glass shoes, found objects, fabric, performance
Duration: 8 minutes
Performance by Jayne Cherry, Video by Stuart Calvin
‘The Unmentionables’, 2017
Materials: Mirror, screen print, photographic emulsion on glass tiles
Dimensions: h60 x w180 x d4cm
With assistance from Nexus NI
Alison Lowry 