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Mary Healy

Lecturer
3 Perrott Avenue
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
T: +353 214903926
E: mary.healy@ucc.ie

Dr Mary Healy is from West Cork, Ireland. She has worked, studied and travelled in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, the Caribbean region and the United States. She holds a B.A. in Fine Art Printmaking (LSAD, 2006), an M.A. in the History of Art and Architecture (UL, 2008) and a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Visual Culture (UL, 2012). Her Ph.D. was completed under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Lawless (TCD) and Professor Carol Armstrong (Yale University).

Healy has been a lecturer and researcher in the arts and humanities since September 2008. She is a strong proponent of interdisciplinary and research-led teaching who uses blended learning approaches—including Online and Technology Enhanced Learning, see example here.

 Her former academic posts and awards include: Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies,TCD (2013-2016 [Associate until Sept. 2017]); Guest Lecturer, Department of History of Art, UCC (2015-2016); Language Bursary from the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris (2014); 3 x Irish Research Council New Foundations Awards (2012-14); Lecturing and Research Fellow in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Department of History, UL (2012-13); Government of Ireland Scholar (2010-11), Fulbright Scholar in the Humanities and Visiting Researcher, Department of History of Art, Yale University (2010-11), Guest Lecturer and Tutor, UL (2008-2012) and UL Research Scholar (awarded 2008-2011, accepted 2008-2010). 

Healy’s research centres on East-West dialogues in art history and visual culture from 1860 to the present—with a particular focus on European Orientalism and cross-cultural representations, women’s art and gender theories. She is also interested in post-1945 decolonisation and postcolonial theories and their impact on artists’ identities, art making and art history. She has published her research in peer-reviewed platforms, for instance, an article published in Cultural & Social history (accepted and in press), and Women Studies, December 2015; a monograph based on her PhD is forthcoming with Ashgate (T&F Group); an invited chapter in press with the Orientalist Museum Doha (English and Arabic), and an invited book review in Modern and Contemporary France (June, 2016).

Healy was the principal organiser of 'East-West Dialogue in Art History and Visual Culture: Europe, North Africa and the Middle East’, an international symposium at Trinity College Dublin in association with the Chester Beatty Library, 2014. Funded by the IRC. For details see here. 

She has presented her work at numerous international conferences and symposia such as an invited paper at Qatar Museum Authority’s 2015 conference at the National Portrait Gallery, London. For film see here. For conference details see here.

Healy is a member of the Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; National Women's Council of Ireland; College Art Association, USA; Egypt and Austria (research of European travel and cultural representation in the Greater Middle East); she is a supporter of the White Ribbon Campaign, The Other Half Alliance, Ireland (Men and women working together to stop violence against women), and a member of the Irish Fulbright Alumni Association.

She has curated four art exhibitions, two of which were research-led: Familiar Faces: Works by Influential Women Artists from the Patrick J. Murphy Collection (co-curated 2008), and Orientalism and the Female Gaze: The Helen Hooker O’Malley Collection, (co-curated 2007), Bourn Vincent Gallery, Ireland. She is also an artist and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally (2004-2006). 

 Healy has provided art history expertise to international foundations, art collectors, art auction houses and academic publications.

Research Interests

East-West dialogues in art history and visual culture from 1860 to the present—with a particular focus on interdisciplinary approaches to European Orientalism and cross-cultural representations; women’s art and gender theories; the history of travel and East-West cultural exchanges; post-1945 decolonisation and postcolonial theories and their impact on art making and art history. Museum and gallery studies, particularly the roles of museums and galleries in our societies.   

Research Project/s and Development

Nearing completion: Interculturality and the Visual Source: A Gendered and Cultural Reinterpretation of French Orientalism (1860-1962). Only one female artist is recognised in the canon of French Orientalism. Healy has uncovered and provided biographies for eighty-six French women Orientalists who practised in France and North Africa between 1860 and 1962. This database is the first of its kind. It forms the basis of new theoretical frameworks concerning East-West cross-cultural and social dialogues which can be defined as being at the intersection of gendered and cultural difference—a topic at the forefront in the world today.

Investigative research: East-West Dialogue in Art History & Visual Culture: Europe, North Africa & the Middle East. Looking beyond the purely Western canon, Healy is exploring the reflected artistic gaze from the modern and contemporary ‘Arab world’: thus, contextualising art objects as being an important part of a reciprocal, socio-cultural dialogue between the ‘Orient’ and ‘Occident’. She contends that this understated dialogue in visual culture can be harnessed and used in innovative ways to generate a positive exchange of ideas between Europe and the Greater Middle East.




Books

YearPublication
(2018)French Women Orientalist Artists, 1860-1962: Cross-cultural Contacts and Western Depictions of Difference.
Mary Healy (2018) French Women Orientalist Artists, 1860-1962: Cross-cultural Contacts and Western Depictions of Difference. New York: Forthcoming: Ashgate (Taylor & Francis). [Details]
(2009)The Water Colour Society of Ireland.
Yvonne Davis (Ed.) and Mary Healy (Research). (2009) The Water Colour Society of Ireland. Limerick: University of Limerick. [Details]

Book Chapters

YearPublication
(2017)'Mme Lucas-Robiquet’s artistic portrayal of late nineteenth-century Algeria'
Mary Healy (2017) 'Mme Lucas-Robiquet’s artistic portrayal of late nineteenth-century Algeria' In: Basel Jbaily (eds). Orientality: Beyond Foreign Affairs. Orientalist Museum Doha: Vol. 2 (Forthcoming, Milan). Printed in English and Arabic. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

YearPublication
(0)'A Complaint with the Cadi, ca. 1896: an East/West cultural encounter'
Mary Healy (0) 'A Complaint with the Cadi, ca. 1896: an East/West cultural encounter'. Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society, Forthcoming [Details]
(2016)'Book Review: Women, femininity and public space in European visual culture, 1789–1914 edited by Temma Balducci and Heather Belnap Jensen (Ashgate, 2014)'
Mary Healy (2016) 'Book Review: Women, femininity and public space in European visual culture, 1789–1914 edited by Temma Balducci and Heather Belnap Jensen (Ashgate, 2014)'. Modern and Contemporary France, Globe icon [Details]
(2015)'Uncovering French Women Orientalists: Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1959)'
Mary Healy (2015) 'Uncovering French Women Orientalists: Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1959)'. Women's Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal, 44 (8):1178-1199 Globe icon [Details]
(2006)'Contemporary Adaptations of Iconic Works: a Circa Project'
Mary Healy (2006) 'Contemporary Adaptations of Iconic Works: a Circa Project'. Circa, (No. 118 (winter)):107-112 [Details]

Invited Review Articles

YearPublication
(2017)Mary Healy, ‘Kathleen James-Chakraborty (ed), India in Art in Ireland, Oxford and New York, An Ashgate Book, T&F Group, 2016.’ Irish Arts Review, 34:2 (2017): 294-5.
Mary Healy (2017) Mary Healy, ‘Kathleen James-Chakraborty (ed), India in Art in Ireland, Oxford and New York, An Ashgate Book, T&F Group, 2016.’ Irish Arts Review, 34:2 (2017): 294-5. Invited Review Articles [Details]

Catalog

YearPublication
(2016)'La Porte à Tanger par Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902)' in Artcurial: Orientalisme, Cat. Orientalist art auction (Paris, May 2016). pp. 78-83.
Mary Healy (2016) 'La Porte à Tanger par Benjamin-Constant (1845-1902)' in Artcurial: Orientalisme, Cat. Orientalist art auction (Paris, May 2016). pp. 78-83. Catalog Globe icon [Details]
(2016)‘Deux Enfants Marocains par Alfred Dehodencq (1822-1882)’ in Artcurial: Orientalisme, Cat. Orientalist art auction (Paris, May 2016). pp 70-75.
Mary Healy (2016) ‘Deux Enfants Marocains par Alfred Dehodencq (1822-1882)’ in Artcurial: Orientalisme, Cat. Orientalist art auction (Paris, May 2016). pp 70-75. Catalog Globe icon [Details]
(2016)'Odalisques par Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923)' in Artcurial: Orientalisme, Cat. Orientalist art auction (Paris, May 2016). pp 50-55.
Mary Healy (2016) 'Odalisques par Adrien Henri Tanoux (1865-1923)' in Artcurial: Orientalisme, Cat. Orientalist art auction (Paris, May 2016). pp 50-55. Catalog Globe icon [Details]
(2013)'Le Petit Tailleur by Marie Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1959)’ in Artcurial: Orientalisme. Cat. major Orientalist art auction (Paris, June 2013): 50-53. English and French. Reprint in 2014 and 2015.
Mary Healy (2013) 'Le Petit Tailleur by Marie Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1959)’ in Artcurial: Orientalisme. Cat. major Orientalist art auction (Paris, June 2013): 50-53. English and French. Reprint in 2014 and 2015. Catalog Globe icon [Details]
(2007)‘Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)’ & ‘Theory on the Hokusai nishiki-e print held at University of Limerick’, in Orientalism & the Female Gaze. Exh. Cat. (2007), pp 34-39.
Mary Healy (2007) ‘Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)’ & ‘Theory on the Hokusai nishiki-e print held at University of Limerick’, in Orientalism & the Female Gaze. Exh. Cat. (2007), pp 34-39. Catalog [Details]

Conference Publications

YearPublication
(2010)Crossroads of Egyptology
Mary Healy (2010) ‘Depictions of Difference: Reviving the Forgotten French Women Orientalist Artist-Travellers, 1860-1968’ Crossroads of Egyptology National Museum Prague, 2010, , pp.95-108 [Details]

Online Multimedia

YearPublication
(2014)East-West Dialogue in Art History and Visual Culture: Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. An International Symposium at Trinity College Dublin in association with the Chester Beatty Library, Ireland, (Dublin, 2014).
Mary Healy (2014) East-West Dialogue in Art History and Visual Culture: Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. An International Symposium at Trinity College Dublin in association with the Chester Beatty Library, Ireland, (Dublin, 2014). Online Multimedia Globe icon [Details]

Honours and Awards

 YearTitleAwarding Body
2014Language Fellowship Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
20132 x IRC New Foundations Awards, 2013-14 Irish Research Council
2012IRC New Foundations Award, 2012-13 Irish Research Council
2010Fulbright Award for Research in the Humanities (Yale University) Irish Fulbright Commission
2010Irish Research Council Scholarship Irish Research Council
2008UL Scholar (awarded 2008-11, accepted 2008-10). University of Limerick

Conference Contributions

YearPublication
(2016)National Gallery of Ireland,
Mary Healy (2016) 'Representations of gender crossing boarders: women artists and Orientalism 1870-1936'. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin , 20-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016)Crawford Art Gallery Cork,
Mary Healy (2016) Visualising the 'Orient'. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Crawford Art Gallery Cork, Cork , 02-DEC-16. [Details]
(2015)Orientality: Beyond Foreign Affairs. A Conference organised by the Orientalist Museum Qatar,
Mary Healy (2015) ‘Mme Lucas-Robiquet’s artistic portrayal of late nineteenth-century Algeria.’ See film at https://vimeo.com/132633919. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Orientality: Beyond Foreign Affairs. A Conference organised by the Orientalist Museum Qatar, National Portrait gallery, London . [Details]
(2014)Feminist Art History Conference 2014,,
Mary Healy (2014) ‘A Culturally Inquisitive Meeting Space: A Complaint with the Cadi, c. 1896.’. [Oral Presentation], Feminist Art History Conference 2014,, American University, Washington DC, USA . [Details]
(2014)Egypt and Austria X,
Mary Healy (2014) ‘Challenging Otherness? A woman Orientalist’s painted representation of late 19th-Century Algeria’. [Oral Presentation], Egypt and Austria X, The Institute of Social and Economic History (hosted by the Academy of Performing Arts), Charles University, Prague . [Details]
(2013)Alternative Modernisms: an International, Interdisciplinary Conference,
Mary Healy (2013) Reframing modernist representations of North African women: French women Orientalists, 1890-1930’. [Oral Presentation], Alternative Modernisms: an International, Interdisciplinary Conference, Cardiff University, UK . [Details]
(2013)The Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC) and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, TCD Guest Lecture Series,
Mary Healy (2013) ‘Orientalism and the Visual Source: An “Open Platform of Discussion” '. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], The Irish Art Research Centre (TRIARC) and the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, TCD Guest Lecture Series, TCD . [Details]
(2013)College Art Association 101st Annual Conference,
Mary Healy (2013) ‘Shifting the imagined erotic object to a heterogeneous modernist subject: Maghrebi female interiors as painted by French women Orientalists, 1890-1930’. [Oral Presentation], College Art Association 101st Annual Conference, New York, USA . [Details]
(2011)Gender, Culture & Society PhD Discussion Forum,
Mary Healy (2011) Research (French women's Art). [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Gender, Culture & Society PhD Discussion Forum, University of Limerick, Ireland . [Details]
(2011)Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference,
Mary Healy (2011) ‘Reviving the forgotten French women Orientalist artists, 1860-1968: cross-cultural contact and western depictions of difference’. [Oral Presentation], Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand . [Details]
(2010)Evening Lecture Series: Department of the History of Art, Yale University,
Mary Healy (2010) ‘Depictions of difference: cultural translations within the works of French women Orientalist artists 1860-1968’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Evening Lecture Series: Department of the History of Art, Yale University, Loria Centre, New Haven, USA . [Details]
(2009)Research Day, Artefact: The Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians,
Mary Healy (2009) 'Women Orientalist artist-explorers of 19th-Century France: the forgotten female perspective’. . [Oral Presentation], Research Day, Artefact: The Journal of the Irish Association of Art Historians, Newman House, St. Stephens Green, Dublin, Ireland . [Details]
(2009)Egypt and Austria VI conference,
Mary Healy (2009) ‘Reviving the forgotten French women Orientalist artist-travellers, 1860-1968’. . [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Egypt and Austria VI conference, The National Museum, Prague . [Details]
(2008)Research Day: National Gallery of Ireland,
Mary Healy (2008) ‘Uncovering the Life Narrative, Artistic Career and Oeuvre of Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1959)’. [Oral Presentation], Research Day: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin . [Details]

Outreach Activities

 Description

Select Public Events: Art Exhibitions & Symposia. 

Principal Organiser: 'East-West Dialogue in Art History and Visual Culture: Europe, North Africa and the Middle East', an International Symposium at Trinity College Dublin in association with the Chester Beatty Library, Ireland. Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme. For details see here. 

Curator: The Water Colour Society of Ireland National Collection (art exhibition), Bourn Vincent Gallery, Ireland, 2009.

Curator: Plassey Partners: An Exhibition of Works by Selected Artists (art exhibition), Bourn Vincent Gallery, Ireland, 2009.

Co-Curator: Familiar Faces: Works by Influential Women Artists from the Patrick J. Murphy Collection (art exhibition), Bourn Vincent Gallery, Ireland, 2008.

Co-Curator: Orientalism and the Female Gaze: The Helen Hooker O’Malley Collection (art exhibition), the Bourn Vincent Gallery, Ireland. Opened by the ambassador of Japan His Excellency Keiichi Hayashi, 2007.

Exhibiting artist: The RDS Irish Travelling Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland (art exhibition),2006.

Exhibiting artist: Works in Focus, The Bell Table Limerick, Ireland (art exhibition), 2006.

Exhibiting artist: An exhibition of Works by Mary Healy, Ethna O’Byrne & Marian McGrath, Limerick Printmakers, Ireland (art exhibition), 2006. 

Exhibiting artist: The RDS Art Awards, Dublin (art exhibition), 2006. 

Exhibiting artist: BA Honours Degree End of Year Exhibition, LSAD Gallery (art exhibition), 2006. 

Exhibiting artist: Degree End of Year Exhibition, Impact Theatre Limerick (art exhibition), 2005.  

Exhibiting artist: Selected Works from Students of the École des Beaux-Arts, Musée de École des Beaux-Arts Nantes, France (art exhibition), 2004.           


Other Activities

 Description

Select Media

'Mary Healy, a graduate in print, staged ambitious photographic tableaux reworking iconic paintings with great verve, showing a vastly more attentive awareness of painting than most of her fellow graduates in the painting department.’ - Aidan Dunne, ‘Artists on the Line’. The Irish Times (27 June, 2006), p. 12.

 
2015: Art Historical Contributor: interviewed by the Qatar Museum Authority for short promotional film about their Orientality Conference series. Available via the Orientalist Museum , see here.

2014: Art Historical Contributor: interviewed for film archive about the art collector and philanthropist M. Shafik Gabr of Cairo and Washington DC. Directed and produced by Multi Emmy Award winner and National Geographic Documentaries producer Ms. Christine Weber.

2013: Heather Madar & Joan DelPlato, ‘Harems Imagined and Real, Panel at the Annual College Art Association Conference, New York, February 16, 2013’ (Healy was a member of this panel). International Journal of Islamic Architecture, Vol. 2, N° 2 (July 2013), pp 435-438.

2011: Niall Murray, ‘Invaluable Access to Rare Journals’. Irish Examiner (feature on Healy's research at Yale, 4 Jan., 2011), p. 6.

2010: Colette Sheridan, ‘Healy’s Take on Women Artists’. Irish Examiner (27 July, 2010), p. 14.  

2010: Christine Brennan, ‘The Forgotten Artists’. UL Links Magazine (July, 2010), pp 63-65.

2010: Pauline Matthews, ‘Yale Holds the Key to Success for Mary’. Evening Echo (6 October, 2010), p. 15.

2010: Gordon Smith, ‘Scholars to Live Dream in America’. The Irish Times, 2 July 2010.

2009: Julie Hornsby, ‘Highlights of A.S.T.E.N.E. Conference 2009’. Cornucopia (Healy's paper was featured), July 2009.

2006: Myles Dungan, ‘Discussion on Mary Healy’s art’. The Arts Show, Radio One, Ireland, 21 Aug. 2006. 

 

Teaching Interests

Dr. Healy's teaching interests extend across the modern and contemporary periods, they include: 

  • Global women’s art, identities, societies and gender theories.
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to European Orientalism, representation and visual culture since 1800. 
  • Post-1945 decolonisation and postcolonial theories and their impact on artists’ identities, art making and art history and theories. 
  • The rise of modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in art history since 2000.
  • The (re)presenting of MENA identities and cultural heritages through art and the gallery space. 
  • 21st-century globalisation and the decentring of the (European and American) art canon.
  • Traditional histories of the museum space, the development of ‘the white cube space’ and the ‘new museum'. 
  • The multiple roles of galleries in our societies.   

Healy is strong proponent of research-led and interdisciplinary teaching, moreover she uses blended learning approaches including Object Based Teaching and Learning, and Online and Technology Enhanced Learning. See example here. 


2017-2018 Modules Co-Ordinated and Taught 100%. 
HA2011 From Modernism to Postmodernism
HA2017 Legible/Visible: Art and Interpretation
HA3016 Intentions in Art: Women's Art & Gender Theories 
HA3028 Global Artistic Interventions
HA6009 Contemporary Art

2017-2018 Modules Co-Taught 
HA1001 History of Art (semester one: 6%. semester two: 31%)
HA2009 Creator & Subject: Themes in Portraiture (29%)
HA2012 The History of Art History & Method (35%)
HA3013 Special Supervised Research Project (Co-Ordinator and teaching 2 x  workshop)
HA6006 Theory for Art History (50%)


Dr. Healy is Third-Arts Convenor for History of Art, UCC. 

Recent Postgraduates

 Graduation YearStudent NameInstitutionDegree TypeThesis Title
2017Máire Domhnat McKeown University College CorkMASTER OF ARTSAn Analysis of the Role of Photographs in Irish Missionary Magazines 1914-1930: Construction of the 'Other' and impact on Irish Self-Identity'
2014Mona Hamed Trinity College DublinMaster of Philosophy‘Deconstructing Representations of Muslims'
2017Ellen Byrne University College CorkMASTER OF ARTSThe Role of National Identity and Memory in Representations of the female Body as a contested site in Contemporary Irish Art (1991-2017)
2017Joris Bakhuis University College CorkMASTER OF ARTSThird Space Theory in Contemporary Art Practice in the Netherlands: potential benefits for the Dutch-Surinamese Postcolonial Relationship
2013Anna Shaver University of LimerickMASTER OF ARTS‘The American painter Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones (1885-1968)'
2013Malihe Zafarnezhad University of LimerickMASTER OF ARTS‘Sourcing the historical lineage of the 17th- century paintings at Chihil Sutun Palace (Iran, 1647)'

Modules Taught

 Term (ID))TitleLinkSubject
2018Extended Essay 2 HA2023Extended Essay 2
2018Creator and Subject:Themes in Portraiture HA2009Creator and Subject:Themes in Portraiture
2018Intentions in Art HA3016Intentions in Art
2018Contemporary Art HA6009Contemporary Art
2018The History of Art History and Method HA2012The History of Art History and Method
2018Global Artistic Interventions: (RE)Making Identities After 1945 HA3028Global Artistic Interventions: (RE)Making Identities After 1945
2018Specialised Supervised Research Project HA3013Specialised Supervised Research Project
2018Legible/Visible: Art and Interpretation HA2017Legible/Visible: Art and Interpretation
2018Extended Essay 1 HA2022Extended Essay 1
2018Introduction to Art History HA1001Introduction to Art History
2018From Modernism to Postmodernism: Art after 1945 HA2011From Modernism to Postmodernism: Art after 1945
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