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.

Portráidí Criathraigh

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..

Portráidí Criathraigh- the film

The film follows the making of Portráidí Criathraigh by visual artist Seán Ó Flaithearta during 2019 and 2020. The project worked with the local community to chose the two people honoured in the installation.

Ephemera

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