One of the darker sides of lockdown during the Pandemic 2020 - Covid 19 was sadly, the ever increasing reports of Domestic Violence. This work was originally created as 39 individual black and white drawings but I have just combined it into a short video work in response to these recent reports on the most vunerable who asked to 'stay home'  and 'stay safe' were actually then more at risk of personal injury or even worse...

This project is a result of the artist's residency in a Women's Refuge Centre,  Rathmines, Dublin Ireland for over three months as part of research for the drawings she facilitated art workshops in 'still life' with a range of women resident there.
Domestic violence is neither new nor a localised problem, it can be found all over the world and evidence of it can be found as far back as written history goes and, throughout history many of the behaviours now thought of as domestic violence have been both legal and socially acceptable. 

"For Still life, I draw on two very different artforms i.e Silent Movies and Still Life painting genre. In the early 20th century, black and white, silent movies were the very epitome of modernity, entertaining and thrilling people with their magical properties of large, collective, immersive screenings in the dark. Communicating without sound or colour, they ingeniously found ways to share a range of emotions, sounds and sites to tell stories, using only images, emphasis, atmosphere, text and intertitles."