Year: 2013

growing networks of art, ecology, forests in Ireland and Scotland

UPDATE - since I've posted this a friend contacted me to say there are two place-based learning events coming up in Ireland's Burren area. The first one is on 18-20 July 2013, at Kinvara Galway.  Place-based Learning – building a network?  is 'building on the success of the inaugural Irish Learning Landscape Symposium Apathy to…Read more growing networks of art, ecology, forests in Ireland and Scotland

Upcoming conversations about House Trees

House Trees (detail), full room height, graphite on white painted wall, drawing installation, Kathy Herbert, 2013 I'm delighted to have been asked by artist Kathy Herbert to participate in an informal conversation that will delve into the influences and tensions of her recent work House Trees and Other Tales. The sometimes fractious relationship between built…Read more Upcoming conversations about House Trees

Standing up for forests, in Ireland, Nth. Ireland and Tasmania

Recent forest public protest walk at Jenkinstown Wood, Co. Kilkenny 8 June 2013, against the sale of public Irish Forests. Protest walks, talks, events were organised all over Ireland recently. . “A stunning victory for people power and public protest.” Richard Boyd Barrett (June 19, 2013), Irish politician and one of the main organisers of…Read more Standing up for forests, in Ireland, Nth. Ireland and Tasmania