Personal Effects: A Family Story
Judy Carroll Deeley
She/her
I’m a graduate of NCAD with a BA in Fine Art Painting. I have an MA in Visual Arts Practices. DVI helped me develop my project 'Personal Effects: A Family Story'. This project is inspired by photographs and artefacts relating to my family background, recently uncovered in my father’s old family home in south inner-city Dublin.
My project examines the role source materials play in helping us to understand the past. Using these sources along with stories/memories, I reimagine the day-to-day lives of my father’s family. On a broader scale, through research, I hope to show the impact of home, church, work, leisure and war on the lives of working-class people in the early part of the twentieth century.
Acknowledging the ‘unknowableness’ of ‘back then’ is my starting point for this project. We can never really know the past; memory is suspect, and my interpretation of source materials is subjective.
The Wire Factory A (triptych), 2021. Mixed media on wallpaper, 47 x 115cm (each 47 x 37cm)
The Wire Factory B (triptych), 2021. Mixed media on wallpaper, 47 x 115cm (each 47 x 37cm)
The Wire Factory Workers C, 2021. Mixed media on cartridge paper, 52 x 152cm
A Day Out A, 2021. Mixed media on wallpaper, 20 x 39cm
A Day Out B, 2021. Mixed media on wallpaper, 23 x 41cm
A Day Out C, 2021. Mixed media on wallpaper, 28 x 33cm
Seamstress A (triptych), 2021. Mixed media on paper, 90 x 21cm
Seamstress B, 2021. Mixed media on paper, each 29 x 21cm
Seamstress C, 2021. Mixed media, each 26 x 21cm
Seamstress D, 2021. Mixed media, each 26 x 21cm