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  • Rebecca Warren b1965
  • Come, Helga 2006
  • Reinforced clay, paint, plinth and Perspex
  • 2155 x 645 x 1580mm
  • Presented by Tate Patrons 2006
  • Tate © Rebecca Warren, courtesy Maureen Paley, London
  • T12258
  • View work within Tate Collection
Rebecca Warren: Come, Helga

© Rebecca Warren, courtesy Maureen Paley, London

Since the 1960s Rita Donagh has been using maps as her principal motif. Through them she has probed the gap between representation and reality while questioning the nature of their authority. shadow of six counties relates to the Troubles in Northern Ireland during the 1970s and 1980s. A map of the six counties that make up Northern Ireland has been partially painted over and reworked, thwarting the map's promise of objective truth. The partially obscured map thus hints at the difficulty in understanding the political situation in the region, in deciphering fact from fiction, and representation from misrepresentation.

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