{"id":356661,"date":"2025-08-19T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356661\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:25:14","slug":"artist-janet-pierce-we-arrived-into-northern-ireland-at-the-height-of-the-troubles-was-forced-to-confront-some-of-lifes-darkest-realities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/356661\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Janet Pierce: \u2018We arrived into Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, was forced to confront some of life\u2019s darkest realities\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nArt: What Lies Beneath\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Janet Pierce has always gone her own way\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SF Janet.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)\">Janet Pierce has always gone her own way<\/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)\">In 1973, Janet Pierce had her first solo exhibition in the Everhart Museum in \u00adScranton, Pennsylvania. Her most recent solo show is now on view at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co Mayo, and Pierce has exhibited throughout Ireland, the UK, the US, Portugal and India. <\/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)\">She was exhibiting even \u00adearlier. Born in Edinburgh, Pierce, aged nine, did a series of drawings of Burmese \u00addancers and \u201cto my amazement, the teacher put 12 of them up on the wall\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Art: What Lies Beneath Janet Pierce has always gone her own way In 1973, Janet Pierce had her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,125688,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-356661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-people-culture-magazine","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115055186736514726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}