Welcome Disturbances Opening The Lab

Welcome Disturbances is an exhibition and programme of related events. in partnership with Dublin City Council, The LAB. This exhibition presents the work of UCD Science Artists In Residence,
Mark Cullen, Emma Finucane, Cindy Cummings, Fred Cummins,
Sofie Loscher, Siobhán McDonald, Meadhbh O'Connor & David Stalling.

curated by Sheena Barrett & Emer O Boyle

Emma Finucane, Invitation to Participate, The lab, 2015

Currently Artist in Residence in UCD College of Health Sciences I am the principle investigator on a research team with a midwifery lecturer Dr. Maria Healy (UCD) and midwife, Teresa McCreery based at the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street. Together they are working on the research initiative: An interpretive phenomenological study: Illuminating childbirth experiences of women attending a midwife-led service via visual art works. Insights from this research will highlight women’s lived experiences of childbirth vis visual artworks and academic publications. The final artworks will be included in the UCD Health Sciences Library in book format as an educational tool alongside academic books.
There will also be an exhibition of work made in response to the common findings in the experiences of the women.
I saw this exhibition as an opportunity to invite women to participate in the project and recruit from the gallery as well as the Satellite Clinics and Holles Street.