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    Helen Ireland

    Wrought Iron

    Wrought Iron

  • About Helen Ireland


    The rhythmical lines and movement of Helen Ireland’s paintings draw on the patterns of medieval manuscripts, Indian miniatures, American sandpaintings and tapestries. They betray a kind of quiet, even subdued, concern for finding a mode of representation which is respectful to ‘the other’ but is able to draw on it.

    “The paintings are indicative of a dialogue with the ‘orient’, a pleasure in looking to different visual traditions” (A. McRobbie).

    Wrought Iron [1992]
    Oil on canvas, 168 x 175.5 cms
    Donated by the artist 1992