The Arts of Nature: Weaving colour, stories, and voices with Kathy Kirwan Back to events list
Date: September 7th, 2024 from 10:00 to 16:30
Price:Standard €40.0
Price:Discounted €20.0
Price:Scholarship €0.0
Venue: CECAS
Join Kathy Kirwan for a day of reconnecting with nature, refreshing your practice, gaining some new skills and meeting wonderful people in the enchanting grounds of the Myross Wood House this June.
Discover wild and Wonderful Botanical colour.
Forage for plant-based colours.
Create your own spectrum of colours from foraged flora.
Weave with found materials, plants & naturally dyed textiles.
Compose stories and sounds for Eco activism – storytelling and soundscape creativity.
Lunch: Enjoy a 30 km lunch.
Discuss the coloniality of planting
Discover some of the problems with textile industries
Try out eco friendly alternatives to art materials
and explore how these practices can be use to work creatively with people.
Kathy Kirwan Eco Artist and Educator.
M.A, B.Ed.
Cost €40 for the day including lunch
The price is heavily subsidised by Irish Aid
We do have some further discounted tickets for unwaged learners or for people who may be facing barriers to accessing education
We also have a limited number of scholarships available.
Priority for the scholarships will be given to learners from minority groups
for example, migrants, travellers, refugees/asylum seekers
Apply via email to claire.coughlan@mtu.ie
Artists Bio
Kathy Kirwan was born in the bog, in the middle of Ireland. Her deep connection with nature has influenced her winding life path from the highs and lows of land and ocean topography. From Phys. Ed. And Geography teaching on the wild coast of West Cork to sailing around the world, her deeply connected nature-based experiences have come to rest in the world of Eco Art and Sustainability Education.
As a student of Art Textiles, and Creativity and Change (Crawford College of Art & Design), PGD Creativity, Innovation and Leadership (UCD Innovation Academy), Eco-literacy and Earth Charter courses (Haumea Ecoversity), and an MA in Reflective Practice (University College Cork), her eco-art practice embodies an interconnection with the community of nature.
With a focus on growing connection and community, her work is rooted in Myross Wood, CECAS
www.cecas.ie. Growing a natural dye garden of plants and vegetables, her work focuses on engaging intergenerational groups in developing an intimacy with nature by getting down and dirty in the walled garden and woods at Myross Wood. Hosting a variety of Eco Art workshops, Kathy engages people in growing, dyeing, making ink, watercolours, and Eco printing techniques.
A related ecological project ‘Flax Lin(n) on an intergenerational meitheal of flax and linen enthusiasts, engaged in growing flax, gathering related social history, creating fibres, natural dyeing fibres, and eating cake! Her most recent workshops, Fibre of our Being closing event at Kilcoe Studios, Ballydehob, Culture Night on Oileáin Chleire, and presenting at the Linen Biennale in Belfast. All three recent events brought groups of flax enthusiasts together to immerse in head, hand and heart embodied experiences discussing past and future West Cork Flax, sustainable textiles, felting flax, and singing women’s Working songs.
https://www.instagram.com/kathykirwan_eco_artivist/
If people would like to stay over the next before or the night of the workshop there are affordable accommodation options available through CECAS on site. To book visit https://cecas.ie/stay/