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Art and Activism in Palestine: With Tuqa Al Sarraj and Zoe Lawlor
Ryan and Evan interview Zoe Lawlor and Tuqa Al Sarraj!
Zoë Lawlor is an Irish human rights activist. She's the cultural liaison with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and co-coordinator of Gaza Action Ireland. Zoë was also involved with the Irish Ship to Gaza as part of an international coalition to try to break the illegal Israeli siege of Gaza. With Gaza Action Ireland she has brought two groups of young Palestinian footballers to tour Ireland to raise awareness of the situation in Gaza.
Dublin based visual Artist Tuqa Al Sarraj, grew up in Ramallah where she studied at The International Academy Of Art Palestine (IAAP). Throughout her work Al Sarraj combines mixed media, video, performance, found objects and text to navigate themes of folklore, memory, loss, displacement and exile. She utilises the public space of the city as well as her own private space.
Currently Al Sarraj is in her final year in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design. Her work has been presented at NCAD (2020); MISA (2019); Yellow Box (2018); LIT (2018); IAAP (2017); Centre Social, Georges Brassens (2016); Goethe Institut (2016); Copy Room Studio (2016); KHiO (2015); UAL (2014)
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By Wee Lads, Big ProblemsRyan and Evan interview Zoe Lawlor and Tuqa Al Sarraj!
Zoë Lawlor is an Irish human rights activist. She's the cultural liaison with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and co-coordinator of Gaza Action Ireland. Zoë was also involved with the Irish Ship to Gaza as part of an international coalition to try to break the illegal Israeli siege of Gaza. With Gaza Action Ireland she has brought two groups of young Palestinian footballers to tour Ireland to raise awareness of the situation in Gaza.
Dublin based visual Artist Tuqa Al Sarraj, grew up in Ramallah where she studied at The International Academy Of Art Palestine (IAAP). Throughout her work Al Sarraj combines mixed media, video, performance, found objects and text to navigate themes of folklore, memory, loss, displacement and exile. She utilises the public space of the city as well as her own private space.
Currently Al Sarraj is in her final year in Fine Art Media at the National College of Art and Design. Her work has been presented at NCAD (2020); MISA (2019); Yellow Box (2018); LIT (2018); IAAP (2017); Centre Social, Georges Brassens (2016); Goethe Institut (2016); Copy Room Studio (2016); KHiO (2015); UAL (2014)