City of Women - Jaki Irvine Presented in collaboration with Draíocht At The LAB. Preview Thursday 14th January 2010 6-8pm Exhibition continues to February 27th 2010 The LAB, Dublin City Council Arts Office, Foley Street, Dublin 1.

In 2008 The LAB and Draíocht invited Jaki Irvine to think about William Hogarth's 1732 series of prints, A Harlot's Progress.
City of Women is the work developed by Irvine in response to this invitation. Irvine's short film, City of Women, was shot on Foley Street, formerly Montgomery Street and now the site of The LAB, in June 2009.The exhibition City of Women at the LAB will also include six original prints from Hogarth's series A Harlot's Progress, on loan from the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Dublin City Council gratefully acknowledges the Irish Museum of Modern Art for the generous loan of the Hogarth prints from its collection.