Art Works > Global Warming Series. Gerry Gleason. 2021-22. Supported by The Arts Council of N. Ireland (Creative Individuals Recovery Programme Grant).

Hungry History deals obliquely with the anniversary of the great famine in Ireland, an event that I had not really been taught about as a child and its devastating effects. I wanted the painting through a selection of dates scattered across the picture plane to show that hunger is still with us to this day . When I visited Ellis Island on a visit to N.Y.C. I also became aware of the great influx of immigrants from across Europe at that time who had also suffered
the effects of famine. In all I found it a very moving experience, sometimes events from history can impinge on the present.