Annie Hogg has always loved being outdoors, finding comfort in nature. Her business ‘The Wild Hedge Ink Co.’ reflects this passion. Based in Dunmanway, Annie creates her inks from natural materials foraged from the hedgerows on her doorstep. She first coaxes the colour from raw materials such as oak galls, cherry […]
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Clonakilty-based painter James Waller reflects on his experiences of Christmas imagery – from his childhood in Western Australia, through the art galleries and churches of Europe, to a treasure in a small church in West Cork. As a child my Christmases were spent in the baking hot environs of Kalgoorlie, […]
Jo Ashby, an artist who lives on Sherkin Island, has chronicled her life during lockdown and beyond in a series of hilarious cartoon drawings, which have now been made into a book to support two charities. All profits for ‘Corona Chronicles – the book’ will be divided between Cork Penny […]
During the first lockdown in the spring of 2020, a group of Haiku poetry writers from, or with a connection to, Sherkin Island couldn’t meet in person, so they kept in touch by sending their Haiku poems via a WhatsApp Haiku group instead. Since March, the group has created over 200 […]
by West Cork Arts Centre staff and artists A busy programme of events was in full swing at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre last March. The thought-provoking multi-media installation, ‘Land Walks Land Talks Land Marks’, developed over three years by William Bock in collaboration with residents of Clonakilty Lodge Direct Provision […]
Exhibition curated by Alison Ospina runs online until January 31, 2021 It’s been an especially tough year for the arts, with many organisations having to change tactics at short notice in order to ‘adapt or die’. This was certainly the case for the annual West Cork Creates exhibition, usually to […]