Heffernan, Valerie
(2018)
Mending the Torn Fragments of a Relationship: An
Interview with Sarah Strong.
Women: A Cultural Review, 29 (1).
pp. 97-111.
ISSN 0957-4042
Abstract
Sarah Strong is a practising artist who lives in Islington, London. In this
interview, Strong describes her charged and at times very difficult relationship with her
mother, the Irish poet Eithne Strong (1923–99), as well as her unconventional
upbringing in a commune on the south side of Dublin. She discusses her decision to leave
Ireland for London after discovering she was pregnant, and contemplates the joys and
challenges of becoming a mother at a young age, far from home and in difficult economic
circumstances. This interview also highlights how Strong’s relationship with her mother,
as well as with the maternal more generally, has found expression in her visual art and,
more recently, in her film and poetry.
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