The Fine Line
Crawford Art Gallery screened Sullivan's film, alongside the entire AFI '24 programme throughout the year in 3 blocks, with the first set of films screening from 4 - 30 July.
Mary Sullivan is a visual / performance artist living on Bere Island, Cork. Born 1968, Sullivan works with a variety of mediums including film, installation, performance and sculpture. Her most recent work, The Hold, exhibited on Bere Island June 2022, documents the lives of twenty-four Bere Island residents throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. A graduate of TU Dublin BA (Hons) Visual Art (Sherkin Island), Mary Sullivan received the RDS Taylor Art Award for her work At Home, At War in 2018. She has exhibited in National Botanic Gardens of Ireland; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Leyden Gallery, London and Uillin, West Cork Arts Centre and Bere Island.
Mary Sullivan, ‘The Fine Line’, 2023. Photo: Mickael Do Couto. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI’24 by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Mary Sullivan, ‘The Fine Line’, 2023. Photo: Mickael Do Couto. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI’24 by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
Mary Sullivan, ‘The Fine Line’, 2023. Photo: Mickael Do Couto. Courtesy and © the artist. Selected for AFI’24 by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
The Fine Line (2022)
Mary Sullivan
Selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Ireland
The Fine Line depicts the resilient work of island women that often goes unnoticed while also taking into consideration of what goes unseen behind closed doors and in one’s head.
This film is a subtle yet powerful meditation on women’s vital but so often unseen, unacknowledged and unpaid work. In solidarity with the work and livelihoods of generations of women of island nations, Mary Sullivan’s cinematic postcard aesthetic setting creates an unsettling antedote to the precarious reality of so many women’s living and working conditions.
Dawn Williams, Curator, Crawford, Art Gallery said:
At a time when women’s rights are being attacked from various political quarters and island life is being threatened from climate change, Mary Sullivan’s film underscores the importance of recognising the continual solidarity that generations of women have quietly helped and supported not only their communities but each other both physically and psychologically, and continue to do so.
Crawford Art Gallery will screen Sullivan's film, alongside the entire AFI '24 programme throughout the year in 3 blocks, with the first set of films screening from 4 - 30 July.
Crawford Art Gallery screened Sullivan's film, alongside the entire AFI '24 programme throughout the year in 3 blocks, with the first set of films screening from 4 - 30 July.