Rita Duffy has constructed a chamber out of prison doors taken from the former Armagh women’s Gaol. ‘Veil’ is a metaphor for the way that women’s lives have been shaped by conflict. They weep for husbands, brothers and sons caught up in a seemingly endless cycle of violence. The salt represents shed tears. The red interior recalls the participation of incarcerated women in the dirty protest, and the smearing of their menstrual blood on cell walls.

Label written by Zoë Lippett, Wolverhampton Art Gallery.