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 at this extraordinary juncture in time? Climate change, biodiversity loss, unsustainable food production, gender inequality? How do we support artists to create and sustain ourselves….
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, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequity. We can choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.
For IWD 2021 we have gathered a group of women who choose to challenge.
Each is a farmer, working on a farm of differing scale and size.
Each of these women shows a deep commitment to the land, the places in which they live and the fragile ecosystems which support all of us who share the planet.
Each is continually adapting her practice.
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 our society. By digging deep, we uproot systems that do not serve us. By nurturing the soil, we create the potential for new beginnings. Planting a seed is a radical act of trust, a declaration that you believe in the future. The whole cycle of gardening with nature is life enhancing.
‘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...
Delighted to be be taking part in the Haumea 2021 ecoliteracy learning for creatives and art professionals. This programme is developed by Cathy Fitzgerald whose eco-social art practice ‘The Hollywood Forest Story’ began in 2008.
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.
Lovely to start the day with a morning melody from the wonderful performer Katie O Connor singing a song I wrote called Last Hug
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?...
I wrote this song in response to these extraordinary pandemic times. At the start of the first lockdown my dad said ‘this could be the last hug for a while’. I sobbed when he left, not knowing when I would see my parents and family again. Its hard to...
A Happy Holly-day for one of our native species as Lisa Rena and friends plant 500 hollies on their land in Ballybunion on the Solstice
‘Legacy of Lixnaw’ was filmed at the Old Court, Lixnaw, Co Kerry. The camera takes us through the site of the ancient palace, the seat of the Fitzmaurices. Narrated by local historian, Pat Joe Gilbert, it weaves the story of this space in times long past…the decadent...
The answer lies in my growing personal awareness of the damage to humans and to the environment by our increasingly globalised food supply chain. It’s also to do with Kerry-based artist and food activist Lisa Fingleton. Fingleton the founder of a growing movement...