FISHERWOMAN, FISHERWOMAN: Camille Souter & Alberta Whittle
6 March – 13 September 2026
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Crawford Art Gallery is delighted to loan three paintings by Camille Souter from the collection to Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA).
This exhibition brings together two distinct art practices – of painter Camille Souter (1929-2023) and contemporary artist Alberta Whittle (b.1980) – that insist upon working against the grain, unpicking urgencies of life and death, resistance and regeneration.
Spanning a period of 70 years across two generations, the works in this thematic exhibition range from painting, collage and watercolours, to immersive film, sculptural installation and live performance. One of the largest exhibitions of Souter’s work to date, it features works-on-paper from the 1950s as well as one of her final paintings, alongside previously unseen archival materials and sketches by the British-born Irish artist. Many of Whittle’s installation works have been specially reimagined and refabricated by the artist for IMMA’s galleries, in what is the first showing of the Barbadian-Scottish artist’s practice in Ireland.
Where Souter and Whittle meet in Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman, we see layered intersections of ecological and humanitarian concerns. The artists call attention to urgent issues of extraction and land use, geology and climate, industrialisation and labour, and movement and migration. They each create work from their own personal and local experiences, yet it is shaped by an unerring global awareness.
Crawford Art Gallery wishes to thank and congratulate Alberta Whittle, Annie Fletcher (Director), Rachael Gilbourne (Curator), and the IMMA team.
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