Pauline Rowan worked closely with a small community of people, documenting their relationship to a deconsecrated Irish convent and its abandoned gardens, all of which were marked for demolition. Her collaborators consisted of the convents’ transient residents, its previously evicted nuns and her mother, who was raised in a convent. ‘Under a Vaulted Sky’ at the Dock Arts Centre in Carrick-on-Shannon reflects on the history of women in Ireland through a personal family narrative.
Pauline Rowan: 11 May – 6 July
