MUSEUM
Dragana Jurišić and Paula Meehan
Dublin City Council Culture Company
English
Poetry by Paula Meehan, photography by Dragana Jurišić.
Softcover
68 pages
170 x 225 mm
2019
ISBN 9780995744653
Paula Meehan was invited by Dublin City Council to write an artistic response during the development phase of the 14 Henrietta Street museum. The following year Dragana Jurišić was invited to collaborate with and respond to Paula’s poetry and 14 Henrietta Street through a series of photographic artworks, which together form this new publication titled MUSEUM.
(source: https://www.draganajurisic.com/museum)
About the Artists
Dragana Jurišić was born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). She is currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Jurišić won a number of awards and exhibited widely both in Ireland and abroad. In 2008, she completed a Masters in Fine Art at the University of Wales, Newport, receiving a distinction for her work.
draganajurisic.com
(source: http://irishartnow.com/DRAGANA-JURISIC)
Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and in the MFA programme at Eastern Washington University. Besides seven award-winning poetry collections she has also written plays for both adults and children. She has conducted residencies in universities, in prisons, in the wider community, and her poems and plays have been translated into many languages, including Irish.
(source: https://www.dedaluspress.com/authors/meehan-paula/)
About the Publisher
Established in March 2018, Dublin City Council Culture Company runs cultural initiatives and buildings across the city of Dublin.
dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie
(source: https://www.dublincitycouncilculturecompany.ie/what-we-do/programmes/current)
