Year: 2022

Learning from The Hollywood Forest Story in new EcoArt in Action handbook

Fantastic to have this amazing book to hand, and many congratulations to the editors and contributors. Wonderful to know The Hollywood Forest Story is in it too - the trees do seem pleased 😉 EcoArt in Action : Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities, New Village Press, 2022–EcoArt in Action: Activities, Case…Read more Learning from The Hollywood Forest Story in new EcoArt in Action handbook

No Man’s Land: Art & The Rights of Nature – Burren College Exhibition & Symposia —

As someone who was so fortunate to spend the first half of my life in Aotearoa New Zealand, I’m especially delighted to have been invited to be part of an important panel for the Summer 2022 exhibition at the Irish Burren College of Art. No Man’s Land: Art & The Rights of Nature – Burren…Read more No Man’s Land: Art & The Rights of Nature – Burren College Exhibition & Symposia —

Earth Writings Receives GSI Book of the Year Award

Big congratulations and thanks to Prof Karen Till, Dr Nessa Cronin and Prof Gerry Kearns for inviting me and 3 other Irish-based ecosocial artists to be part of the inaugural Irish Earth Writings Book 2020 – I’m delighted to share that it has won a prestigious award.

Dr Nessa Cronin interviewed me about wee Hollywood Forest – “the little wood that could”

See the attached post for details and where to get a copy of the book. You can also listen to the conversation between myself and Nessa on the EarthWritings.ie website, in the podcast section here:

I’m also delighted to share that in the Autumn I will be working with Earth Writings collaborators Monica de Bath and Lucina Russell, among others, on the Carlow Arts Office-led Arts Council of Ireland Invitation to Collaborate award. I’m advising on ecoliteracy training needs for the 3-county creative community wetland engagement programme Gnáthógá Nádúrtha (3 Habits) involving Carlow, Kildare and Meath.

Earth Writings: Bogs, Fields, Forests, Gardens (2020) received the Geographical Society of Ireland Book of the Year Award at the 53rd annual Conference of Irish Geographers held in Limerick in May 2022.  The book, which focuses on community-engaged arts and geography practices in Ireland, was supported by the Maynooth University Department of Geography Research Incentive Fund, Kildare County Council, and Creative Ireland . Edited by Karen E. Till Professor of Cultural Geography at Maynooth University, the volume was designed by Pure Designs and features writings by artists, curators, and academics: Patrick Bresnihan, Nessa Cronin, Monica de Bath, Cathy Fitzgerald, Gerry Kearns, Pauline O’Connell, Seoidín O’Sullivan, Lucina Russell,  and Karen Till.  The award was in the edited collection category and decided by an international awards committee. The criteria for consideration were that the works: had been published for the first time (in Irish or English) between 1st January 2018 and 31st December 2021; were of clear relevance to a theme related to…

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