Debbie Godsell: 'People don’t realise that there were plenty of working class Protestants too'

The Cork artist dips into her own Protestant heritage for her new exhibition in Skibbereen 

Debbie Godsell's exhibition, Flail, opens at Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, in Skibbereen. 

Debbie Godsell remembers sitting in St Mary’s Church in Passage West as a child, the altar festooned with fruit and vegetables and hydrangeas. Harvest Thanksgiving was a happy time, and the artist recalls being struck by the beauty of it.

Years later she discovered this tradition was particular to her Church of Ireland community. “I thought every church celebrated this way. I had no idea it was just us,” she explains.