Sep 16 2024 78 mins 2
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Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.
https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/
www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney
***Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section 13:40-19:00 mins***
We talked about:
The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture!
Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatre
How one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to draw
The colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalism
Art and activism
Women’s creativity, high art and the Establishment
Art as alchemy and transmuter of pain
In the extended episode we discussed:
The impact of empire…and how quickly things can change
Her experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcised
Imbas – the Irish insight
Her advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called to
We mentioned:
Meggan Watterson – Magdalene Revealed
About your Host
Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.
Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.
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