LAY OF THE LAND
SITE RESPONSIVE RESIDENCIES, EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
We produce powerful, imaginative and considered projects that encourage artists and audiences to engage with the landscape.
Our projects include immersive short and long-term residencies and outdoor exhibitions in an ever growing number of rural locations throughout Ireland.
We support emerging artists whose practices focus on the landscape, and where themes of environment, community, heritage and collaboration are intrinsic to, and reflected in their work.
LOTL was founded and continues to be creatively produced by Kari Cahill and Hazel Mc Cague.
ARTISTICALLY OUR AIM IS TO DRIVE ARTISTS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF ART OUTWARDS INTO THE WILD LANDSCAPE OF THIS ISLAND.
We believe that exploring the interconnection of art, nature and people can be transformative. Our projects create greater accessibility to the arts in rural communities while allowing the visual arts to stand alone as a valuable and necessary cultural activity and experience.
Past PROJECTS
Below you can click-through to our previous projects which took place in wild and beautiful locations from Donegal, through Kerry, to West Cork.
CALAFORT, TOMBOLO 16, 17 & 19, and SILVA have all taken the form of a two week residency followed by a public outdoor exhibition. The project artists work in a scale and manner dictated by the magnitude of their surroundings, creating large scale art works in response to their time immersed in the landscape. LOTL created a series of workshops and activities to run alongside the exhibitions which creates greater opportunities for public engagement with the project, artworks, and the landscape.
2019 marked the beginning of a new series of short-term, site-responsive residencies ‘RES 1-3’. The first took place in Kerry in March at Lauragh. The second and third at An Port, Donegal in July. These shorter residencies mark a move away from production to create the space for artists to explore and develop the direction of their work through engagement with the landscape.
Explore each project, the artworks, and the artists and crew who participated in each site-responsive adventure.
Site-responsive residency and exhibition on Arranmore Island, Co. Donegal investigating the shares experiences of the islanders through conaversations, foraging and storytelling.
4 artists. 3 weeks. 1 travelling lab.
TOMBOLO 19 & The Workshop Series
Site-responsive residency and exhibition at Brow Head, Mizen Peninsula, West Cork accompanied by a series of engaging workshops and activities.
6 artists. 3 weeks. 15 works of art.
RES 1 - Kerry
Short-term immersive residency on the shores of Glanmore Lake, Lauragh, Co. Kerry.
3 artists. 1 week.
RES 2 & 3 - An Port
Two, short-term, off-grid, immersive residencies on the wild donegal cost at An Port.
7 artists. 2 weeks.
SILVA 2018
Site-responsive residency and exhibition at Knockomagh Wood Nature Reserve, Lough Hyne, West Cork.
4 artists. 3 weeks. 18 works of art.
TOMBOLO 2017
Site-responsive residency and exhibition on Brow Head, Mizen Peninsula, West Cork.
8 artists. 3 weeks. 17 works of art.
TOMBOLO 2016
Site-responsive residency and exhibition on Brow Head, Mizen Peninsula, West Cork.
6 artists. 3 weeks. 13 works of art.