Event, Saturday 9th Dec. Ulster Museum
Book signing
Glorious Twelfth: A Folk Art Project
by Helen Kerr SRUA
on Saturday 9th December 2023 at 2.00pm – 3.00pm in
THE BELFAST ROOM, ULSTER MUSEUM
When Helen Kerr SRUA was an art student at Brighton College of Art at the end of the 1950s, she was required to research an aspect of Folk Art and then produce a thesis to demonstrate her competence in calligraphy, illustration and book-binding skills. The College was keen that she research something to do with Northern Ireland and the topic she selected was the Glorious Twelfth. Her dissertation, now published as a limited facsimile edition by Beyond the Pale Books, offers a rare glimpse into the work of now long gone muralists and banner painters.
Helen will talk about her experience researching and producing the book as a young art student and will have the original book at hand for comparison with this beautifully produced facsimile.