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An exhibition where art and science engage with women in minority communities has been launched in the Mayfair Library.
Cut From The Same Cloth is the culmination of a project curated by artist Lorna Donlon in partnership with women in minority communities across Ireland and biomedical researchers from UCD Conway Institute in University College Dublin (UCD).
Through a series of 10 gatherings in community settings around Ireland (including Kilkenny) in 2024, women shared personal stories about fabrics significant to their cultural traditions, customs and lived experience.
These ‘get-togethers’ provided an opportunity for researchers to share the parallels between patterns in textiles and those seen at the cellular level in health research.
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Inspired by these stories, Lorna Donlon created a handwoven tapestry that bridges personal and scientific narratives through fabric and is complemented in the exhibition by research textiles, photographs by Anthony Hobbs and video narratives by Crannóg Media.
Each fabric story is a doorway into the pattern of a person’s life or of their life’s work. Six participants from the local Ukrainian and African communities who took part in the Kilkenny ‘get-together’ are represented in the exhibition.
The tapestry includes an embedded woven QR code that links to the digital version of the exhibition (cutfromthesamecloth.org), marrying an ancient technique with contemporary technology.
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