Jan 3, 2026 | Eco, Media, News
Nature, food, creativity – that’s Brilliant Ballybunion’s recipe for community climate action. The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave the individual feeling disempowered, but by coming together and acting locally, we can transform how we feel and create change, the group believes. Brilliant Ballybunion began with a call out to the north Kerry community for those passionate about nature, food or creativity to collaborate. Nature-lovers, farmers, bird watchers, photographers, sketchers, writers and ecologists came forward and so began a journey of creative climate action- Joanne Hunt
Sep 5, 2025 | Eco, Featured, Media, News
What If We Were Brilliant? is a hopeful and creative project by Brilliant Ballybunion and artist Lisa Fingleton for IMMA Earth Rising that explores how communities can be “brilliant not brutal” in the face of biodiversity loss and climate change.
The project has been selected for the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Earth Rising festival from 12th-14th September. Earlier this year IMMA invited proposals for collaborations between visual artists, Irish-based environmental groups, and local communities and Brilliant Ballybunion was one of the four* selected projects.
Dec 3, 2024 | Eco, Media, News, Writing
“In one generation they will forget that tomatoes were round”. The Square Tomato Exhibition from 1st February to 22nd March 2025 at Siamsa Tire, Tralee. Inspired by the work of Indian writer and global food activist Dr Vandana Shiva, artist Lisa Fingleton, exposes the challenges of our food systems in terms of biodiversity, climate change and health.
May 12, 2023 | Eco, Media, News
Voices from the Field will be screened at the Crawford Art Gallery from the 12 May to 23rd July 2023. Voices From the Field / Guthanna ón nGort by Lisa Fingleton is a film which gives a powerful insight into the communities that work on the Dingle Peninsula (County...
