Na Cailleacha a collective of creatives in their seventies (six visual artists, one jazz musician and a curator/writer) have come together to explore being female, older and hopefully wiser. Between all, the group collective share over 500 years of experience of being women, artists, of being a curator/writer/historian and a composer.
Visual artists Helen Comerford, Patricia Hurl, Barbara Freeman, Maria Levinge, Gerda Teljeur, filmmaker Therry Rudin, musician Carol Nelson and curator/writer Catherine Marshall all spent September at Ballinglen. They were working towards a body of art works that will be shown in 2021 in galleries spread over Ireland, including The Ballinglen Museum of Art. They enjoyed sessions of discussing, of research, making work, workshops, open discussion and talks. They filmed these activities and will present this most interesting documentary at the Bealtaine Festival 2021.
Na Cailleacha (the Irish word meaning witches or divine hags), will explore what it means to be women who are getting older and arguably becoming invisible and devise strategies to overcome those negatives.
The Hags collective: ‘After months of lockdown, it’s like being let free to fly’ - A group of female artists in their 60s, 70s and 80s have come together under the moniker Na Cailleacha, or the Hags by Rosita Boland
