Window Text: Turn the Tide

The next in our series of window text commissions is Turn the Tide by Shannon Delores O’Neill and Tara O’Connor to coincide with Sister Ghost's debut album launching on Halloween 2024, Beyond the Water. Ten artists/writers were invited to create one page of text; a completely open brief. The texts range from dense, deeply personal accounts to bold slogans, personal, political, observations or a call to action, each capturing the different thoughts and feelings of the author. The texts have been designed by different artists and designers and printed in a risograph edition by Derry Print Workshop.

The texts are visible from CCA's windows, each for two weeks, as well as visible online here and distributed across our region. All ten will be available later in the year as a bundle edition available to buy from CCA's shop as a fundraiser.

Turn the Tide, 2024
Author: Shannon Delores O’Neill
Designer: Tara O’Connor
Printer: Derry Print Workshop
Risograph edition of 200

About the author & designer:

Shannon Delores O'Neill is a Derry based award winning musician and artist, who performs under the name Sister Ghost. She has had press in The Guardian, garnered high profile support slots with Pussy Riot, We Are Scientists, Tom Robinson, Ratboys, Tim Wheeler, Shellac, Petrol Girls, Fontaines DC and Le Butcherettes as well as featured artist slots on BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 1. She is also the founder of the NI chapter of Girls Rock! and is a youth worker specialising in music and art workshops.

"The inspiration for this piece comes from the notion that really everything in this life is transient and that there is peace in accepting that, practicing gratitude and moving with the seasons; turning with the tide."

@sisterghostofficial

Tara O'Connor is a comic maker and illustrator currently residing in Belfast. She self-published her first mini-comic, Puddles, in 2010 and since then has worked with Oni Press, boom Studios, IDW/Top Shelf, Scholastic, Andrews McMeel, Aftershock Comics, and Random House Graphic. Her book The Altered History of Willow Sparks was translated into French by Hachette Romans in 2023.

She’s currently working on her second book with Random House Graphic. She’s represented by Allison Remcheck at Stimola Literary Studio.

taraocomics.com | @taraocomics

This project was made possible thanks to support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council and Art Fund.