To celebrate biodiversity week, Kerry Visual Artist in Residence Lisa Fingleton will be hosting a free drawing workshop at 9.30 on Friday 21st May for artists and adults interested in drawing. We will be focusing on our native biodiversity, so take some time this week...
Kerry Artist in Residence Lisa Fingleton will be hosting 4 free, creative and interactive workshops for adults/artists from 9.30-10.30 on Friday mornings for the month of May. The focus this week is on Biodiversity Week and becoming aware of the biodiversity around...
To celebrate Biodiversity Week 2021 Kerry Artist in Residence will host a special workshop for schools on how to create a nature journal 11.30-12.15 on Friday 21st May. Over the last year many of us have had the chance to really take notice of nature, the trees birds,...
Coming soon….This children’s workshop (ages 8+) will be available on this page for Cruinniú na Nóg from 9am on Saturday 12th June 2021 Over the last year many of us have had the chance to really take notice of nature, the trees birds, butterflies and bees....
You are invited to a free creative and interactive workshop with Lisa Fingleton, Kerry Visual Artist in Residence 2021. The workshop will focus on becoming present with nature and using drawing as a meditative tool to really see what is around you. Ideally if you can...
Thank you to Paola Catizone for the invitation to present my work at the opening session of Breaking Cover at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. So great to see this course on art and ecology, exploring how we as artists can respond to the challenges of climate change,...
Really looking forward to being one on the visiting artists at the BURREN COLLEGE OF ART SUMMER ACADEMY 2021 – ART & ECOSOCIAL JUSTICE with Dr. Cathy Fitzgerald,Dr Eileen Hutton, Gareth Kennedy and Ian Biggs.We will be exploring critical issues of our time...
Lisa Fingleton is Kerry County Council’s first Visual Artist in Residence. The residency is supported by Creative Ireland, The Arts Council and Kerry’s Arts Office. Lisa is no stranger to working with the Arts Office, having been Filmmaker in Residence from 2006-2008...
We are delighted to be nominated for the Farming For Nature Awards 2021 for our work here at The Barna Way. Farming in harmony with nature and the land to protect and promote biodiversity…. “Rena Blake & Lisa Fingleton are based in north Kerry where they run...
What do we choose to challenge and support at this extraordinary juncture in time? Climate action, biodiversity, sustainable local food production, gender equality? How do we support artists to create and sustain ourselves…. It was great to participate in the...
Creating Change by reconnecting our language, land and environment. What do we lose when we no longer speak Gaeilge our native tongue? How do we describe our land without the language of our ancestors? How do we reconnect with our local food in a country where less...
”I’ve been taking a wonderful online ecoliteracy course in recent weeks and there’s so much to tell but today, I wanted to talk about The Local Food Project which was started by the artist Lisa Fingleton who runs an eco-social organic farm in Kerry with her partner...
‘Women Artists and Farmers’ Webinar with Limerick City Gallery Of Art at 2pm on #iwd 8th March #choosetochallenge. Running in conjunction with the new exhibition by Mary Burke #athomeontehfarm A challenged world is an alert world. Individually,...
Who would have thought that gardening and farming would become such radical acts? Radical is a beautiful term that comes from the Latin word ‘radix’, meaning to get to the root of something. When we grow food, we get to the root of some of the fundamental issues in...
‘Be your best you‘ is a new podcast series by David Delaney interviewing people about how they translate their passion into purpose. Today he talks to Lisa Fingleton about The Barna Way and The Local Food Project Listen to the podcast HERE . She strives to ‘be the...
Despite all the challenges of the Pandemic we are continuing to enjoy Spring and all our projects here at The Barna Way. We are really focusing on biodversity, food and habitats this year. We are enjoying working with Dr Barry O Donoghue who has been conducting a...
Have really enjoyed taking part in the Haumea 2021 ecoliteracy learning for creatives and art professionals and would highly recommend it. This programme is developed by Cathy Fitzgerald whose eco-social art practice ‘The Hollywood Forest Story’ began in...
I wrote this poem for artists, musicians, singers, poets and writers who have found themselves out of work during the pandemic. We need to value artists and and remember that we need culture for our spirits now more than any other time. Take heed when theatres close...
Lovely to start the day with a morning melody from the wonderful performer Katie O Connor, singing a song I wrote called ‘Last Hug’. Thank you Katie for doing such a beautiful cover. I think we are all realising how precious hugs are in this pandemic and...
Wrote this new poem called The Demise of Mrs Doyle about the hazards of Irish hospitality in the context of Covid 19. You can listen to it here on soundcloud: Mrs. Doyle’s Demise I hear a knock on the door Then hear the voice of Joan Do you mind if I come in?...