{"id":42287,"date":"2026-07-23T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/corina-duyn-digital-archive\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:01:11","slug":"corina-duyn-digital-archive","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/corina-duyn-digital-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Corina Duyn Digital Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Corina Duyn, Artist in care, has documented her life with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1998.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Corina Duyn\u2019s creative story dates back to her\u202fearly years, making her first doll aged 10 and her first puppet aged 15. Her professional doll and puppet making came after a move to Ireland in 1989. Her Fantasy Folk\u202fwork\u202fis in private and corporate collections.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Being involved in the creative arts has been an invaluable support to Corina to bring understanding in her journey through the illness. One of her first drawings during illness was that of a puppet \u2013 questioning \u2018who is holding the strings\u2019. She has often remarked: \u2018<\/span><em><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Puppetry forced me to look deep into the reality of my illness. Poetry defined the experience.\u2019<\/span><\/em><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">Following on from her puppetry based exhibition \u2018I brought the dream of flying\u2019 exhibition at Waterford\u2019s Gallery of Modern Art in 2023 and award-winning book \u2018In bed I cut words\u2019 (2024, Corina has realised her dream of digitising and making accessible her collection of poetry, literature and art.&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-IE\">This digital archive complements the artist\u2019s Little Wings archive at R\u00e9alta Centre for Arts+ Health, and includes the 20-year anniversary edition of \u2018Hatched\u2019 and \u2018In bed I cut words\u2019 .&nbsp;<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"EN-IE\">\u201cWaterford\u2019s Creative Ireland Programme generosity made it possible for Corina\u2019s extensive work to fly into a wider sky, just like the birds who inspired much of her journey.\u201d<\/span><\/em><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42288,"template":"","class_list":["post-42287","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Corina Duyn Digital Archive - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Corina Duyn, Artist in care, has documented her life with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1998.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/corina-duyn-digital-archive\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Corina Duyn Digital Archive - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Corina Duyn, Artist in care, has documented her life with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) since 1998.&nbsp;&nbsp; Corina Duyn\u2019s creative story dates back to her\u202fearly years, making her first doll aged 10 and her first puppet aged 15. 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