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• Rita Donagh b1939
• Shadow of six counties c1980
• Mixed media
• 360 x 360mm
• Purchased from the artist (General Funds) 2006
• Tate © Rita Donagh
• T12291
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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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