Ms Ursula Halpin b. 1972

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Curator
Ursula Halpin is an Irish born artist and curator based in South Australia. Halpin’s work spans glass, textiles, sculpture & installation and curatorial practice.
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Ursula Halpin is an Irish born artist and curator based in South Australia. Halpin’s practice spans glass, textiles and sculpture. Halpin’s arts practice explores how her family traditions of craft have assisted in overcoming generations of inherited trauma and shame applying outcomes to researching the narratives of Irish female migrants to Australia post famine 1848–1855, particularly the women of the Earl Grey Scheme. Using glass material incorporating textiles, in particular Irish lace and Irish crochet-lace, Halpin’s practice looks at developing a new feminist discourse. Through autobiographical narratives Halpin examines how making has assisted in transcending, estrangement, loss of identity and culture as a result of experiencing abjection through historical and contemporary immigration.

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