Magdalene Laundry Drawings

Mangle Convent of the Good Shepherd by Rachael Rom

“What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.” --Jacques Derrida

In this work in progress the artist, Rachael Romero re-presents her experience as a girl in a Convent of the Good Shepherd Laundry, in South Australia--one of the commercial laundries known collectively around the world as 'Magdalene Laundries.'
Since the 1880's many thousands of young women were incarcerated in such antiquated workhouses by the Roman Catholic Church and forced to do hard labor for years without pay.

These works are in preparation for a film on the subject, working title: Nothing Sacred.

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The thunderous Mangle of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, Magdalene Laundry.
water color and guache by Rachael Romero, 28x22" mixed media drawing on paper,
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