Reading Room: I Took a Hammer in My Hand – Jan McCullough at Tea Houses

In partnership with Butler Gallery, the Tea Houses presents Reading Room: I Took a Hammer in My Hand, a week-long public reading room curated by Rachel Botha and artist Jan McCullough as part of the artist’s current exhibition, I Took a Hammer in My Hand at Butler Gallery.

The Tea Houses will feature books from the artist’s collection – including the 1973 ‘Women’s Build-It and Fix-It Handbook’ the exhibition is named after – alongside maquettes, manuals, zines, films and local publications about woodworking, DIY culture, labour, class, gender and domesticity. Research materials can be perused on a newly commissioned communal table, drawing inspiration from the furniture factory and workshop Callaghan & Connolly, once located just metres from the Tea Houses, where Dunnes Stores now stands.

Generously supported by Arts Council Ireland Project Award, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Office and Kilkenny County Council.