Rita Duffy is a prolific and multi-faceted artist, whose work has uncompromisingly tackled themes and images of Irish identity, history and politics. Her work has utilized her impressive range of abilities in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and public art. With a robust humor and disrespectful fluency in her use of symbols of Irish culture and politics, Duffy's work has also strongly championed the place of women in Irish society and examined their role in Irish history.