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Podcast: The Arts House
Episode: WORK OF THE WEEK 42 CECILY BRENNAN WOMAN WITH KOEBNERSING PSORIASIS
Description: In these times of national stress ,this week Conor Tallon spoke of a work that was hard to take in at first...but gently helping him along and explaining it's context and healing power was Michael Waldron the curator of the exhibition it was part of.Small in scale, Woman with Koebnersing Psoriasis (2003) by Cecily Brennan is a deceptively simple, yet intimate work. The artist employs egg tempera to describe a truncated torso form as dozens of dark irregular blotches, identified by the title, appear across its pink flesh.Koebnersing psoriasis is a condition th...