Mary Sullivan is an islander on the west coast of Ireland, and her cinematic postcard aesthetic creates an unsettling antidote to the precarious living and working conditions of so many women on small islands or archipelagos. The Fine Line is set in a harbour on an almost impossibly blue-sky, sun-soaked day, Sullivan’s film is a visually compelling meditation on the past generations of island women’s vital but so often unseen, unacknowledged, and unpaid—work, whose daily toil includes the simple yet painstaking task of line-fishing.
At a time when women’s rights are being attacked and ‘watered down’ from various political and social groups and island life is being threatened from climate change, Sullivan’s film underscores the importance of recognising the continual solidarity of generations of women, who have quietly helped and supported not only their communities but each other, physically and psychologically, and continue to do so.
Mary Sullivan is a visual / performance artist living on Bere Island, County Cork. Sullivan works with a variety of mediums including film, installation, performance and sculpture. She received the RDS Taylor Art Award for her work At Home, At War (2018) 2018 and has exhibited in National Botanic Gardens of Ireland; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Leyden Gallery, London and Uillin, West Cork Arts Centre and Bere Island, County Cork.
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