Eco – Art Project with Artist Jacqueline Duignan
May 21
Led by artist Jacqueline Duignan, Eco-art project will take place in the parklands and gardens of Strokestown Park.
This project takes place over two mornings.
Dates: Thursday May 21st and 28th Times: 10am to 1pm.
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 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.
About Facilitator
Jacqueline Duignan is a visual artist, poet and part time lecturer currently based in Roscommon, with a practice rooted in sculpture and mixed media. A graduate of NCAD and Trinity College Dublin, she has exhibited widely across Ireland and the UK, with solo shows at the Arts Council, World’s End London, and New Art Studio, Dublin.
Jacqueline is a recipient of multiple Arts Council awards, most recently a Roscommon Co. Council Visual Arts Bursary and a Bealtaine Artist Award. Her poem “Ode to Blue” won first prize in the Roscommon New Writing Awards, 2024.She is an active professional member of Visual Artists Ireland. Her recent Community Arts project Postcard from the Little Oak reflects her commitment to inclusive and intergenerational arts practice.
**Registration for this project and workshops is FREE and suitable for all levels.**
This project is supported by the Roscommon County Council Creative Ireland Programme, an all-of-Government initiative, which places creativity at the centre of public policy.
