The Pearl Mussel Project are delighted to see a new art project in the Bunndoragha catchment in Co. Mayo. The art project is being organised Dr. Patricia MacKinnon-Day of Artscape in the UK. The project is entitled 'Calling Sheds', an extension of an existing body of art works. There are four Calling Sheds presented to four female Shepherds and installed by Patricia and her team in the UK and Ireland. The Calling Shed at Glen Keen in Co. Mayo was installed in early December 2018 for local sheperd Catherine O'Grady Powers.
This is a 12 month project where the sheds aim to evoke all of the senses, smells, sights, sounds of the female Shepherds world and will also examine the historic, social, political, psychological and physical aspects of the Shepherds role. At the end of the 12 months, the sheds will be transported back to the UK for display in the Tate Museum, Liverpool.
Raising visual awareness of women shepherds, who have been unacknowledged and even unpaid for their labour, the Calling Sheds promotes empowerment through an ongoing dialogue evolving the historical artist-to-subject relationship. The Calling Sheds gives women shepherds a platform to tell their stories and reference through objects of significance a deep lineage of contributions made by women to the agricultural industry.
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