Walk and Talk of Heirloom Exhibition: dlr LexIcon Gallery

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown arts programme is organised by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office. The aim of dlr's Municipal Gallery Programme is to provide opportunities for all people of all ages to engage with the arts as creators, spectators and participants.

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Join artist Rachel Doolin and journalist Ellie O’Byrne for this walk and talk of the current Heirloom Exhibition at dlr LexIcon.

Gallery, Level 3

Join artist Rachel Doolin and journalist Ellie O’Byrne on an informal walk and talk through Doolin’s exhibition, Heirloom, as they discuss her six-year process that led to her seed-inspired project. Starting with her visit to Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, where over a million seeds are stored to protect the biodiversity of crops, the conversation will cover Rachel’s time working with gardeners, growers and seed savers in Ireland and around the world. About Heirloom Heirloom is an installation of new works created by artist Rachel Doolin. The work manifests from a culmination of experiential research undertaken during an arctic based residency programme, and has been subsequently informed by a creative partnership with Irish Seed Savers Association. In 2017, Doolin embarked on a research residency to Longyearbyen, an industrial frontier town situated in Svalbard, a remote arctic archipelago located midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. Here, buried deep beneath a permafrost mountain lies a backup of the world’s largest collection of agricultural biodiversity, cryogenically preserved within the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, estimates that 75% of the genetic diversity in agricultural crops has been lost since the 20th century. As risks from the climate crisis and global conflict escalate, seed banks are becoming increasingly considered a precious resource that could one day prevent a worldwide food crisis. Heirloom presents a series of visual, installation and digital based works that celebrates the ‘profundity of seeds’ by exploring the human thread that articulates the connection between our past, present and future, and places the humble seed as a profound nexus in the nature-culture relationship. Heirloom is presented by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and supported by an Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Project Award. More information <a href="https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/municipal-gallery-dlr-lexicon/heirloom" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>About Ellie O’Byrne Ellie O’Byrne is a freelance journalist, podcast producer and arts writer from Cork. She’s the host of Green Bites, the Irish Food Sustainability Podcast, acting editor of local online newsletter Tripe + Drisheen and frequent collaborator with Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, where she hosts a series of podcast interviews with artists called Sirius Podcasts. She recently co-curated a programme of events for the Crawford Art Gallery’s food-related Meat and Potatoes exhibition. She’s a keen home gardener. Before becoming a journalist, as co-owner of The Natural Foods Bakery she co-founded Blackrock Village Farmer’s Market in Cork. About Rachel Doolin Rachel Doolin is a visual artist and project designer facilitator based in the South of Ireland. Doolin’s multidisciplinary practice merges art, experimentation and ecology to create work that is inextricably linked to material research, driven by a desire to test the parameters of materiality, media and the criticality of issue-based practice. Doolin frequently collaborates with artists, NGO’s as well as community and professional organisations to create meaningful artworks that intersect current social and environmental practices. Doolin is currently collaborating with Irish Seed Savers Association on a project titled: Heirloom, which explores human connections to seed.

Walk and Talk of Heirloom Exhibition: dlr LexIcon Gallery

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