Led by artist Jacqueline Duignan Eco-art project will take place in the parklands and gardens of Strokestown Park. 

Workshop participants will create impermanent landscape sculptures using only natural and found materials gathered from the grounds eg, twigs, leaves, stones, bark, seed heads, clay and other biodegradable elements.

The aim of the project is to deepen participants’ connection to the environment through discourse, observation and sustainable art-making.

The workshops will begin with guided sensory walks. Participants will explore textures, patterns, shadows and growth through sketchbook work and photography, developing an awareness of the subtle structures already present in the environment. From this foundation, they will explore construction techniques such as balancing, weaving, tension-building and interlocking forms without the use of synthetic materials or fixatives.

Each participant (or small group) will then design and a small-scale sculpture. These works may take the form of twig, stone, leaf, branch structures and patterns. The sculptures will be intentionally impermanent. This emphasis on the ephemeral encourages reflection on cycles of growth, sustainability and renewal.
 

Please note that the details of events listed above are provided by the relevant Local Authorities.