{"id":219835,"date":"2025-12-07T08:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219835\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:25:11","slug":"wicklow-artist-mary-duffy-on-art-identity-and-changing-the-conversation-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/219835\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow artist Mary Duffy on art,\u00a0identity and\u00a0changing the conversation this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist Mary Duffy in her studio in Newcastle. Photo: Leigh Anderson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6ee01d52-692d-424c-8577-6d6dd6c70e31.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist Mary Duffy in her studio in Newcastle. Photo: Leigh Anderson<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cBefore I could walk, they put a paintbrush between my toes,\u201d said Wicklow artist, Mary Duffy. \u201cWhen I was born without arms, they kind of thought, that&#8217;s about all she could do, probably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was a slightly uneasy beginning to a conversation with the award-winning painter of over 40 years. But it had followed a slightly uneasy text message sent to arrange the discussion about her remarkable life, in which she had said she was driving and would call later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist Mary Duffy in her studio in Newcastle. Photo: Leigh Anderson \u201cBefore I could walk, they put a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,9273],"class_list":{"0":"post-219835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-tom-galvin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115677333210897502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}