Lismore Castle Arts unveil 2025 Project
Artist Ruby Wallis ran the workshops 'Between Dog and Wolf'.
Lismore Castle Arts have announced their annual project exhibition, due to open this weekend.
'Between Dog and Wolf' by Ruby Wallis is launching as part of the 2025 A Space for Lismore project on Saturday, August 30.
Artist Ruby held a year-long series of workshops with International Protection Applicants who are living in Lismore.
According to Lismore Arts, they took inspiration from early-photography techniques inspired by Anna Atkins and William Henry Fox Talbot; "participants have experimented with camera-less techniques like phytography, anthotype print-making and lumen printing."
Plants referenced in the exhibition include; bamboo, beetroot, blackberry, cactus, fennel, fern, grape, kale, lemon balm, nettle, palm tree, rose and tulip.
They were named in the languages of the participants, including Arabic, French, Yorùbá, Russian, siSwati, Irish and English.
According to Lismore Castle Arts: "Participants reflected on their relationship to the garden and the recognition of plants, with conversations often moving towards healing and culinary uses in their respective home countries.
"These conversations have become a point of connection, creativity and cultural memory, as the garden becomes a site of personal significance. It is a space for healing and growth, but also of uprooting and replanting."
The exhibition is open to the public on Saturday and Sunday from 12pm - 5pm.
