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STILL, WE WORK, features specially commissioned artworks by Sarah Browne, Vagabond Reviews, Miriam O’Connor and Anne Tallentire. The exhibition is the result of an initiative taken by the NWCI to develop a Legacy Project to mark the council's 40th anniversary year and funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. The research and development of the brief was undertaken by Valerie Connor, who devised the project for NWCI and curated the first exhibition of the artworks at Gallery of Photography, Dublin in 2013. In the context of the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, the artists were asked to reflect on contemporary representations of women’s work and they have responded by making new works addressing women’s experience of precarity in contemporary working conditions and the invisibility of much work by women and ‘women’s work’. The artists in STILL, WE WORK were originally commissioned by NWCI to reconsider representations of women and work, making a travelling exhibition to reveal common cause and produce new connections and inquiry among artists, activists and audiences. Preview, 2013: The Hub, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Future State of Ireland Conference, curated by Helen Carey, September. Premiere, 2013: Gallery of Photography, Temple Bar, Dublin, curated by Valerie Connor. Opened by Áine Lawlor, Broadcaster, October. Tour, 2013: Tulca Festival of Visual Art, Galway, curated by 126 Gallery. Opened by Rachel Doyle, NWCI, November. 2014: Cork City Hall, Ballyphehane Togher CDP, curated by Harry Moore and Maeve Dineen Cork City Council Arts Office, March. European Union House, Dawson Street, Dublin, curated by Antoinette Emoe, June. 2015: Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, curated by Marie Barrett, May. Abhainn Rí Festival, Callan and Kilkenny Arts Office, curated by Rosie Lynch & Hollie Kearns, and Monica Flynn, June. Various Locations, LCGA and Dance Limerick, curated by Michele Horrigan, October.