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Uinse

July 1, 2019 anthropocene, art and ecology, art and forests, Art and Nature, art and trees, Celebrating Irish and world forests, Continuous cover forestry training | learning, ecoart, Environmental artist, forest flora and fauna, forest policy, forest research, foresters and wood-workers, Ireland, ProSilva Ireland, tree pests and diseases, tree species 14 Comments #CultureDeclaresEmergencyAsh diebackAsh treesCathy Fitzgeraldconifer aphidsFrancis Wellergriefhollywood forestIrelandPhoto IrelandphotographySarah FlynnSitka spruceStephen JenkinsonUinse

‘Uinse’ by Sarah Flynn: grieving Ireland’s madness for monocultures

At a conference in Ireland in 2004, I remarked that the Irish had had enough experience of imported plant disease to last them a thousand years - the calamitous potato famine in 1845. The man from the Ministry got up and bleated nothing could be done because this would restrict trade and the World Trade…Read more ‘Uinse’ by Sarah Flynn: grieving Ireland’s madness for monocultures

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Cathy Fitzgerald PhD | ecosocial artist | educator | researcher

Cathy Fitzgerald PhD | ecosocial artist | educator | researcher

I explore new ideas and practices for ecosocial well being by bringing art and nonart practices together in my creative practice. I also offer Ecoliteracy learning, workshops, mentoring, writing and policy developments for the arts at www.haumea.ie _____________________________ Through my practice and an art practice-theory PhD "The Ecological Turn", I have developed a guiding theory-method framework to articulate the context and workings of long-term eco-social art practices. These vital practices activate ecoliteracy and agency for environmental change in communities. Much of my PhD drew on my experiences and challenges, and the review of others' pioneering creative practices' that are responding to ecological concerns. My own transversal practice reflects on the transformation of the small conifer plantation that I live with, Hollywood forest, toward new-to-Ireland, Close-to-Nature forestry. I bring previous experience in biological science research and interests in environmental philosophy, policy development and ecocide-Rights of Nature law developments into the mix. _____________________________ Somehow an eco-social art practice allows me to connect and move across these various strands of interest to create a new agency for myself and the human and non-human neighbours I depend on and live with. _____________________________ Hollywood forest is the smallest Close-to-Nature forest in Ireland; its growing happily near Mt Leinster and the Blackstairs mountains in South East Ireland.

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  • the hollywood story : an eco-social art practice in county Carlow Ireland
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