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Creating Your Nature Journal, Cruinniú na Nóg, Saturday 12th June 2021
In these workshops we will look at how to make a really cool nature journal with some drawing and mixed media tips.
Creating Your Own Nature Journal For Biodiversity Week 2021 (Schools)
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,...
Drawing with Nature: Connecting Art and Ecology (Environment Watch)
I believe in the power of art and the imagination to spark public engagement around the big issues of climate change, but also localised issues such as the devastating fires in Killarney National Park. Art helps us heal, but also enables us to visualise new futures and ways of being.
DEVELOPING YOUR NATURE JOURNAL PART 2: 11.30 28TH MAY 2021 (SCHOOLS WORKSHOP)
Following the huge success of the nature journal workshop for Biodiversity Week (attended by over 500 students), Kerry Artist in Residence will host a second workshop for schools on how to develop a nature journal: 11.30-12.15 FRIDAY 28th MAY 2021. Students are...
Drawing With Nature: Drop In and Draw 9.30 Friday 28th May
Would you like to draw together on Friday morning? Kerry Artist in Residence Lisa Fingleton is hosting 4 free, creative and interactive workshops for adults/artists from 9.30-10.30 on Friday mornings for the month of May. TO REGISTER This Link is for 9.30 Friday 28th...
DRAWING WITH NATURE: FREE BIODIVERSITY WEEK WORKSHOP 9.30 FRIDAY 21ST MAY
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...
Drawing With Nature: MOYA Festival 10-11.30 1st May 2021 (Free workshop on zoom)
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...
Breaking Cover: Art and Ecology Encounters at IMMA
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,...
BURREN COLLEGE OF ART SUMMER ACADEMY 2021 – ART & ECOSOCIAL JUSTICE
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 such as...
Lisa Fingleton Appointed Kerry County Council’s First Visual Artist in Residence
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...