Oral Histories
The compiled interviews on this website includes artists’ biographies and audio excerpts. Most interviews are with individual artists, but some are group interviews. For each interview you will also find a link to the full-length recording and transcript housed at the Digital Repository of Ireland.
Oral history is a grassroots method, informed by radical historians aiming to produce ‘history from the bottom up’ rather than relying upon narratives provided by institutional or academic gatekeepers – such as the canons and values seen in museums, or histories written by distant scholars. As such, the oral histories in Feminist Art Making Histories go well beyond existing narratives of women artists and feminist-informed practices, to privilege the voices of the artists and participants in the movements themselves. This is the first project to consider artists working across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, in rural contexts as well as towns and cities. In this way it complicates current histories of feminism and art. The result produced is a rich, nuanced, and diverse picture of feminism, art, and politics.
More interviews will be available soon.
