‘Lines of flight’ from the Hollywood project
Holly charging around on our visit to hear Fritz’ plans on planting a woodland; Fritz has been inspired to plant a woodland from the recent talk in Hollywood – YAY!!! Since behaviour is contagious to...
View ArticleThe missing pillar of sustainability: culture
Image from my recent talk for ‘Collective Conversations about Sustainability’ (organised by the UCD Art in Science programme with The Lab Gallery, Dublin). Yes, its me aged five! Sustainability as a...
View ArticleOperation Transformation to Continuous Cover Forestry
Great to see ProSilva Ireland’s* message about Close-to-Nature, non clearfell, continuous cover forestry is getting great press and TV coverage. This is what should have been included in this years new...
View ArticleRe-imagining forests for Ireland in 2016 and beyond
Draft of my poster for Ireland’s Farming and Country Life 1916-2016 event. I was surprised and delighted to be asked by Dr. Deirdre O’Mahony to contribute a poster to the Teagasc and Galway County...
View ArticleFindhorn film launches: An Enquiry into a New Story for Humanity
This weekend the oldest eco-village, Findhorn, launches an important film to commemorate its extraordinarily ambitious 2014 New Story Summit. I have just read a review by one of the talented...
View ArticleThe Possibilities of Place
“The artists whose work we see around us have done their job with great skill, vision and imagination. Such inner exploration helps us to talk to ourselves and each other at a deeper level. It carries...
View ArticleReversing Silent Spring at Visual Carlow
What is happening now is in large part a result of the biological unsophistication of past generations. Even a generation ago no one knew that to fill large areas with a single species of tree was to...
View ArticleReview and Opening of the 9 Stones Artists Possibilities of Place exhibition:...
This is an update of some of the press and media regarding the 9 Stones Artists Group Show I am involved with, and which is on show until 16 October. _____________________________________ Celebrating...
View ArticleWhy ancient tree knowledge in Ireland matters today: Blackstairs Ecotrails...
Oak trees near Mt Leinster, Blackstairs mountains, Co. Carlow Today, Ireland only has remnants of its ancient forests and has one of the lowest levels of tree cover in Europe. While afforestation is...
View ArticleThe art of Sitka spruce twigs, mud and moss: now at VISUAL Carlow
This is an update of a post I wrote on 20 August 2013. Found abandoned on the floor of Hollywood last weekend, two works of art… __________________________ Update Summer 2016: Fellow 9 Stone Artist...
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