Special shout out to the lovely folks at Stillgarden Distillery who will be hooking us up with drinks on the night!

Thank you to Duin UNESCO City of Literature and Dublin City Council for supporting our fourth issue.

Picture credit: 'Cau Cau', acrylic on linen, by Zully Mejía.

Thank you to @dublincityoflit and @dublincityartsoffice for supporting our fourth issue.

Picture credit: 'Cau Cau', acrylic on linen, by Zully Mejía.

'Painted in acrylic on linen, this work is part of a series that draws on photographs and memories from my childhood. It captures an intimate moment in which my grandmother is feeding me. The title, Cau Cau, refers to a traditional Peruvian stew and one of my favourite dishes as a child.'

With a huge thank you to Dublin City Council for making this issue possible.

Artwork: 'Aimée', watercolour on paper, by Marie Le Men (@marie_lemen_artworks) in Profiles issue 3.

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It is decorated with a flower pattern and within it nettle leaves are cooking. To her left, a hand offers a pomegranate and a laptop is open with pictures of various recipes on display.

She is wearing an iteration of a traditional galway shawl, decorated with a pattern of apples, hazelnuts, hands, mussels/cockles, wood sorrel and dulse (seaweed). To her right hangs a long handled frying pan.

Alt-text description: The mixed-media painting 'Self-Portrait' by Megan Luddy O'Leary depicts – in gouache on raw cotton, with embroidered details – the artist standing peacefully and half-clothed. Her eyes are shut and she appears relaxed. Her hair is cropped in a bob.

Artwork: Megan Luddy O'Leary, 'Self-Portrait', gouache and embroidery on raw cotton.

Read her vibrant and tenderly nostalgic story 'Eating My Mother', on our website, complemented by Megan Luddy O'Leary's wonderful 'Self-portrait', which was originally published alongside Claire's piece in Profiles issue 2. Link in bio!

The exhibition features the artwork from our third issue by the incredible artists eaturing work Aisling Dunne, Éadaoin Glynn, Salvatore of Lucan, Philip Rainey, Juliette Morrison, Glen Quigley, Thom Kofoed and Marie le Men. For more details see: jamesjoyce.ie/events/profi...