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Dee Mulrooney is a multi-disciplinary Irish artist. Inhabiting a female body and all that it entails is the main preoccupation of her work. Exile, class, displacement, social history, longing and belonging are some of the themes explored by Dee, through various media, including painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Her art is fiercely authentic, and she leaves no stone of her own personal healing journey unturned. Dee works with the alchemical aspect of transmutation in her art, using this process to deal with difficult topics, including, abuse, death and loss. Dee’s performance art is provocative and has a political point to make, highly social, collaborative and community building. She is driven by story and symbolism, how we remember and interpret history and women’s role and their bodies within that. She exhibits and performs regularly and had an award-winning show at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

https://deirdre-mulrooney.com/

www.Instagram.com/deemulrooney

*Trigger warning re abuse and baby death, and Irish Mother and Baby homes – to skip this section around 15-22 mins*

We talked about:

The central theme of womanhood in her work and contemporary vulva-tastic culture!

Her alter ego Growler – an 84 year old vulva and mother of God and creating ritual theatre

How one of the most traumatic events in recent Irish history emboldened her to draw

The colonisation of the creative space by patriarchy and capitalism

Art and activism

Women’s creativity, high art and the Establishment

Art as alchemy and transmuter of pain

In the extended episode we discussed:

The impact of empire…and how quickly things can change

Her experience of childhood hallucinations and being exorcised

Imbas – the Irish insight

Her advice on overcoming fear in order to make or share the work you are called to

We mentioned:

Empire podcast

Burning Woman

Tuam Mother and Baby Home

The Babog project

Meggan Watterson – Magdalene Revealed

Imbas

Sile na gigs

About your Host

Lucy H. Pearce is the author of multiple life-changing non-fiction books, including Nautilus Award silver winners Medicine Woman, Burning Woman, and Creatrix: she who makes. Her writing focuses on women’s healing through archetypal psychology, embodiment, historical awareness and creativity.

Lucy founded Womancraft Publishing, publishing paradigm-shifting books by women for women, in 2014.

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Join host Lucy H. Pearce, the book’s author, Pam Grossman, and the members of the Creative Magic Book Club for a deep dive into Magic Maker - The Enchanted Path to Creativity.

We discuss:

The central image of the magic maker

Creative gifts and demons

The ways we can incorporate magic into creativity.

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About the Author

Pam Grossman is a writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history. She is

the host of the internationally beloved podcast, The Witch Wave and the author of

Waking the Witch.

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Rima Staines, a UK artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her visual world is an umber and madder-infused chapel of misfits and magicians, story-rich and alchemical. Her paintings, which feel both ancient and familiar at once, have been exhibited and published internationally. In 2018 she was a finalist in the 'Best Artist' category of the World Fantasy awards.

Rima has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - that which lies at the edge of culture and society as well as the literal boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”. She lives in the south of England.

Links:

www.rimastaines.com

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Instagram: @tilsamka

Facebook: facebook.com/rima.staines

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Womancaft Publishing

We talked about

Rima’s writing - Art and the Landscape of Belonging – join her Patreon to read

The changes required at midlife

Creativity and daily life a balance between desire and necessity

The beauty of particular difference

Her drive and need for authenticity

The Otherworld and how we can access it

Neurodiversity – Epilepsy, Downs Syndrome and autism.

Motherhood and creativity

Neurology and creative magic

Her visual art which she describes as “Art in a minor key”

Synaesthesia

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