Recovering the voices of women painters

This Northern Bridge Funded project (starting date September 2022) is a collaborative PhD at Ulster University in partnership with National Museums NI. The research will assess the overlooked visual histories of women painters in the North of Ireland from 1957 (when the Ulster Society of Women Artists was founded) to 1969 (the death of Alice Berger Hammerschlag). It will focus and place a number of women painters that had a huge impact on the artistic practice of the country, though have not been recorded or vigorously researched in comparison to their male counterparts.