Patricia Hurl: 'I got letters from women saying they were praying for me'

Her first show may have had a mixed reaction, but now in her 80th year the artist has a major exhibition at IMMA 
Patricia Hurl: 'I got letters from women saying they were praying for me'

 Patricia Hurl's exhibition is currently on at IMMA. 

Patricia Hurl is surprisingly easy company for an artist whose work has so often provoked controversy. Her first major retrospective, Irish Gothic, has just launched at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and features eighty works from throughout her career.

The earliest are drawn from Hurl’s very first solo exhibition, Living Room Myths and Legends, which, when it opened at the Temple Bar Gallery in October 1988, was notorious for its satirical take on suburban life.

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