Art and Nature

Ugly walls? Living walls – artistic or architectural installations?

Another item from the Irish Green Gathering. I met US born Rita Higgins and her Irish partner Paul Quirke, who have a sustainable landscape design business in Cork - Anu Green Designs. I was captivated by their 'vertical garden' systems which you can plant up or buy ready grown. I had known about greenroof gardens…Read more Ugly walls? Living walls – artistic or architectural installations?

Lismore: Art & Spaces Now-White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes talk by Curator Raymond Ryan, Carnegie Museum

This talk looks very interesting, not sure if I will be able to make it. White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes by Raymond Ryan (Curator, Heinz Architectural Centre, Carnegie Museum) If in the 1960s and ‘70s, Art found a home in the clinical white interior (and, occasionally, the wilderness) and if, in the 1980s…Read more Lismore: Art & Spaces Now-White Cube, Green Maze: New Art Landscapes talk by Curator Raymond Ryan, Carnegie Museum