CONNECTION WITH Irish Boglands is celebrated in a month-long exhibition currently running in Scariff.
Interwoven, a visual celebration of connection with the Irish Boglands is currently on display at Scariff Library Gallery and runs until March 16th of this year.
Clare Arts Office in conjunction with the Scariff Library Gallery have presented the work of several artists through different mediums themed around the Irish Boglands, including painting, sculpture, photography, video and text.
Ian Kelly, Nathalie El Baba, Shane Hynan and Eoin O’Hagan are the artists involved with contributions from Martin Mason.
The exhibition draws attention to the roles which peatlands play in our living cultural heritage and invites us to reflect on bogs as places of recreational, ecological, cultural, historical, and artistic interest.
It aims to celebrate our interactions with the boglands whilst opening a space for conversations to take place around regeneration and community involvement in the future of our bogs.
As part of the month-long event, an ‘intergenerational story exchange’, sharing stories of the bog, will take place between Transition Year students from Scariff Community College and older members of the East Clare community.
