Image credit: Clare Gallagher

Join artist and academic Clare Gallagher for a lunchtime talk marking the launch of her new book, ‘Subversive Mothers, Disturbing Domesticity’ (Bloomsbury).

Home is a space shaped by emotion, expectation and contradiction. It can offer comfort, care and belonging, but it can also feel oppressive, unequal or out of reach. This talk explores the many dimensions of domestic life and asks what it means to inhabit home physically, emotionally and socially. Is home a sanctuary, a workplace, or a site of struggle?

‘Subversive Mothers, Disturbing Domesticity’ invites readers to rethink this deeply familiar yet elusive space, tracing the hidden histories, emotions and tensions that exist within it. Through photography, Gallagher examines domestic life, maternal labour and the question of visibility, challenging what is overlooked, normalised or left unseen.

Clare Gallagher is a Belfast-born artist based in the North of Ireland whose practice explores home and women’s lived experience. Working primarily through photography, she attends to the overlooked rhythms of domestic life, the labour of mothering, gestures of care and the complex emotional terrain of home. She is Senior Lecturer in Photography and Director of the BA (Hons) Photography with Video at the Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.

A limited edition book and print will be available to buy.

Tickets: Free