Stop Strip Searching

• Lai Ngan Walsh, Who Takes the Rap - Immigration 1986. Video, colour, sound, 34 mins
• Anne Crilly, Stop Strip Searching 1984. Video, colour, sound, 52 mins

Lai Ngan Walsh

Lai Ngan Walsh is a London-based filmmaker, sound recordist and script consultant who has worked in film and television production. She was a contributor to Black Women and Representation at Four Corners during the 1980s. As a member of the Women and The Law Collective she made films addressing racial and gender discrimination in British law. Her work was included in the group exhibition Women in Revolt at Tate Britain (2024).

Anne Crilly

Anne Crilly is an artist and filmmaker from Derry, based in Donegal. She was a founding member of the Derry Film and Video Workshop (DFVW) in 1983, a women-led group who explored the women’s movement and how it coincided with ‘the national question’ in the north of Ireland. These films included themes of colonialism, and social and gender equality. After Stop Strip Searching, Crilly went on to make Mother Ireland which was recognised internationally for its representation of the Irish women’s movement. In 2024, DFVW had an exhibition with Sara Greavu and Ciara Phillips at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (We Realised the Power of It).

Dr Isobel Harbison

Dr Isobel Harbison is an Irish art historian and writer, and Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her first book, Performing Image, was published by the MIT Press in 2019. Her second book, a history of the world’s most famous sign, in situ and in circulation, is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. From 2025 - 2026, Harbison is Research Associate at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, working with Ulster Museum and the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland to deliver Recording History, an oral history of artist and independent filmmakers active in the north of Ireland from 1968 – 1990.

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