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‘I’m terrified of becoming a headline’: an exhibition responding to GBV in Ireland
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2024-08-12
Authors
Scriven, Richard
Murray, Maria
Claire Coughlan
O’Keeffe, Helen
Sterling, Molly
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Creative responses to societal issues can be used to highlight topics, provoke discussion, and encourage solutions. Art can take on a multiplicity of roles in response to gender-based violence from enabling individuals with personal experience sharing their stories to critiquing media/political representations. The ‘I’m terrified of becoming a headline’ exhibition (Munster Technological University Gallery Cork, Ireland, April/May 2022) deployed poetry and song, in written and recorded performance formats, newspaper headlines, and interactive spaces to further renew discussion of gender-based violence in Ireland. This article considers the installation’s role by connecting our reflections and feedback from participants with larger discussions of creativity as a process to foster progress in addressing gender-based violence.
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Art , Exhibition , Artivism , Socially engaged art , Participation
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Scriven, R., Murray, M., Coughlan, C., O’Keeffe, H. and Sterling, M. (2025) '‘I’m terrified of becoming a headline’: an exhibition responding to GBV in Ireland', Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 9(1), pp.142-152. https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2024D000000044
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© 2025, the Authors. Published by Policy Press.