Contained Chaos Analysing the Work of Nano Reid and a Sense of Place

Helen Fee
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Century: 20th Century

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This dissertation considers the work of Nano Reid (c. 1900-1981), and

Irish modernist artist within the context of a ‘sense of place’. Reid was an independent bohemian on the margins of a conservative Irish society. In examining Reid and a ‘sense of place’, this dissertation has been divided into three foci. The first examines Reid in context- her place in art in Ireland in the 20th century and the spaces provided for artists working outside the academic traditions of the prominent Royal Hibernian Academy. The second chapter is an analysis of Reid’s geographical and metaphysical sense of place-interrogating her fondness of the Boyne Valley, the importance of her local cultural heritage and her interest in the ordinary and overlooked. Finally, this thesis examines Reid’s place as a woman artist working on the margins of the Irish art world.

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Contained Chaos Analysing the Work of Nano Reid and a Sense of Place