Microphotography Art Workshop with Anna Marie Savage

The Shifting Tides project brings together coastal communities from the twin shores of Carlingford Lough, and across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, to foster new connections with local marine environments through practical ecology and the collaborative creative arts.Shifting Tides will be developed in collaboration with impacted local communities who are the ideal candidates to take charge of positive climate intervention and marine management.Our multidisciplinary team, synergizing backgrounds in the arts and sciences with experience in project management and communication, will be supported by the reach and resources of The Wheel and NICVA.

Shifting Tides Project

Explore the sea beds and coastline of Carlingford Lough through the lens of microphotography.

The Dolmen Centre

Explore the sea beds and coastline of Carlingford Lough through the lens of microphotography. Have you ever wondered what seagrass and seaweed look like under the microscope? In this workshop, abstract visual artist, Anna Marie Savage will guide you through some ink and collage techniques to visually translate microphotographic images to produce your own mounted, ready-to-frame abstract piece of art to take home. Please note that this workshop is suitable for adults only. This free event is part of a series of events hosted by the <a href="https://www.theshiftingtides.org/" title="https://www.theshiftingtides.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Shifting Tides project</a>. The Shifting Tides brings together coastal communities from the twin shores of Carlingford Lough, and across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, to foster new connections with local marine environments through practical ecology and the collaborative creative arts. See <a href="https://The Shifting Tides Project brings together coastal communities from the twin shores of Carlingford Lough, and across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, to foster new connections with local marine environments through practical ecology and the collaborative creative arts." title="https://The Shifting Tides Project brings together coastal communities from the twin shores of Carlingford Lough, and across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, to foster new connections with local marine environments through practical ecology and the collaborative creative arts." target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.shiftingtides.org </a>

About Anna Marie SavageI am an abstract painter and visual artist based in Omeath, Co. Louth, Ireland and a Fine Art graduate of the Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, where I received a First Class Honours Degree in 2009.A core thread that weaves through my work is a probing of identity, ranging from the personal through to the cultural and political sometimes albeit in a romanticized, reminiscent concept. I grew up in the border town of Newry, Co. Down in the 1970s and 1980s and have always been fascinated by its hinterlands and have become to realise how the effect of a geographical location can have on the emotions and behaviour of the individual and how this relatable connection to the land and, this ever-present psychogeography has now become apparent within my own practice.My latest bodies of work <a href="https://www.annamariesavage.com/store-1" title="https://www.annamariesavage.com/store-1" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Utopian Spaceships </a>and <a href="https://www.annamariesavage.com/shop-priseas-process" title="https://www.annamariesavage.com/shop-priseas-process" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Próiseas/Process</a> are developed from a series of photographic drone images taken of the thirteen Army watchtower sites that were based along the south Armagh border during The Troubles. I commissioned a drone photographer to capture these thirteen sites now that they have been decommissioned, the intention being that the drone images would reflect a contemporary cartography; a new way of depicting the landscape but also to experience the juxtaposition of rural Irish landscape versus the architectural, manmade structures of surveillance. By manipulating the drone images with solarized filters-similar to the heat sensitive cameras the army would have used for surveillance and focusing on the shapes and linear structures that were picked up by the drone, I have translated the work into this series of works on paper through screenprint, monoprint and painting.

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