A Cork exhibition that dips into grandparents' past in Uganda
Myfanwy Frost-Jones' exhibition, Another Country, runs at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion at Fitzgerald’s Park in Cork'
Myfanwy Frost-Jones is grateful for the day she began unpacking the boxes stored in her attic. Her home, on a small landholding by the sea in Tuosist, outside Kenmare, Co Kerry, was built in the 1950s by her maternal grandparents, Dr AT and Georgina Schofield, and the boxes contained a vast trove of photographs and film Dr Schofield shot while serving as a medical missionary in Uganda in the 1920s and ’30s. The material now forms the basis of her new exhibition, Another Country, at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion at Fitzgerald’s Park in Cork.
Frost-Jones has lived and worked in Tuosist since her early twenties. Her activities as an oyster farmer helped inspire her degree show when she graduated from the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork in 2022. The project won two prestigious awards: the MTU Registrar’s Prize, which led to the exhibition Infinite Harvests at the James Barry Exhibition Centre at MTU in March this year; and the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award, which saw her decamp to Paris for three months last summer.
