Carol Jerrems, Self-Portrait (1973)
By Anne O’Hehir
Issue 4, Summer 2025
There are transformative moments in Carol Jerrems’s work where she captures a defiance in women, who take on a mythic quality beyond the specifics of time and place. A woman stares directly into the camera, serious, flanked by two surly teenagers: the image that has come to represent her practice: Vale Street (1975).
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