FAOI RÚN

Faoi Rún is a series of site-specific artworks set on the Ros Muc peninsula tracing the interplay between landscape, climate and culture. Inis Mór artist Seán Ó Flaithearta’s Portráidí Criathraigh (bog portraits) pay homage to Ros Muc personages Bridget Aylward, Queen of Alaska, and sean-nós dancer Cóilín Sheáin Dharach Seoige. Composed of bog and drowned sky, they echo the filling and emptying of seasonal turloughs, and reference the ingenuity of traditional ways of working within and with the natural landscape.

Merging the physical and virtual landscapes, digital media artist Paul Kinsella explores the simultaneous alternatives of Ros Muc’s past, present and future. Inspired by unrealised plans to build a railway to the area, the works highlight the tension between the seeming permanence and mutability of place.