Cathy Henderson obituary

My sister, Cathy Henderson, who has died aged 51, was an artist who was gaining increasing recognition in Ireland and beyond.In early 2012 she was selected as co-designer, with Robert Ballagh, of the 1913 Lockout Tapestry, a big collaborative project between the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in Dublin and the Irish trade union Siptu to commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, in which more than 100,000 people engaged in a battle for workers’ rights. Despite her diagnos