Convergence artists 2025 . Member . Soil Residency
Katharine Maynell
On 1 August 2024 by Deej_Fabyc1Artist Statement : I am interested in the personal and the political, humour, feminist strategies and subjectivities in a lived world. I make artists’ books, video installations, performances and drawings – pretty much anything that seems to structurally contain thoughts and action. These are often in series, as records of precarious things. My recent initiatives
Member . Soil Residency
selina bonelli
On 30 August 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1the landscape is an archival process of covering and uncovering layerings of stories and unheard voices compressed, exposed, covered, re-covered and recovered. earthed stories: i’m exploring edges and borders, boundaries and interfaces between ‘borderlands’ – here it is as mud is – between water and land – not mixing but holding particles both bonded and
Soil Residency
Rachel Cohen
On 1 August 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Rachel is here as one of our final Soil Residents I gathered raw ingredients around the grounds of Millford House and, with a pestle and mortar, created a home-made, site-specific soil Ingredients: some dead animal fragments (dead moths, flies, snail shells,) dry leaves, beech nuts, fIowers and grasses, bark, moss, mushrooms, limestone,rainwater, lime and clay.
Live Art performance . Soil Residency
Selina Bonelli Invites
On 17 June 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Please feel warmly invited to a Alban Hefin gathering under the oak tree for a bring and share eveing (4:30pm) celebrating our maximum tilt towards the sun and three days post new moon. There will be a short performance offering beforehand (4pm) for those who would like to come and witness. Everyone welcome. 21st JUNE
Soil Residency
Hi Vis Witches
On 15 June 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Two members of the collective Hi-Vis Witches will share the space for 3 weeks to develop a new participatory performance based around themes of building and magick. Soil and clay are prominent materials in our practice and we will further explore their symbolism in both construction, magic and the churning cycles of death and rebirth.
Soil Residency
Sarah Devereux
On 7 June 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1The Dirt Bird Inspired by fibromyalgia™* and a constant use of the expression “feeling sluggish” Sarah Devereux embraces this enforced Slug State™. Using the slug as the ultimate symbol of slowing down. After many years of being in a constant state of production within her arts practice Devereux became interested in interrogating ideas around labour
Soil Residency
Alex Billingham
On 30 May 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Live Art IrelandResults – Fluid bodies 001Alex Billingham27/05/23What form does survival take when it begins from a position outside of the cis white male?How does trans survival taste?When you add in a dash of Neuro spicy?Where can Crip survival form itself in safety?I began with a picture of a brightly painted arctic survival shelter and
Soil Residency
Christopher Linforth
On 20 May 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Christopher was our second writer in residence During the soil residency, I have been working on revising, maybe even rewilding, some flash fiction for a new collection: Sauna Culture. From the story, “Genealogia” My other self rarely asks questions about me. He exists on a parallel plane, superior in his mind, concerned with the strange lives
Soil Residency
Fay Burnett
On 12 May 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1I arrived at the SOIL residency, with a bag of peat, collected from Knockmore on Clare Island. I felta preciousness in the peat, derived partly from my feeling of ‘hiraeth’ – homesickness, for theisland. I found this feeling to mirror the current precious reality of the bogland; as it rests andrestores, it is now recognised
Soil Residency . Workshop participant
Annie Hogg
On 2 May 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1Coming to the SOIL Residency, I held the seed of an idea looking at soils and their microbiallife in a context of communication. This was originally to be explored in a kinetic, time-lapseeffect of creating environment through which growth and mould development could occur.Through-out my time here, however, the idea for this new installation has
Soil Residency
Alexandra Neuman
On 27 April 2023 by Deej_Fabyc1At Live-Art Ireland I am working on a project entitled ‘The Collective Womb’ which explores the interconnections between the womb and the earth at a time of increasing restrictions on reproductive rights and the ongoing climate crisis. The videos are made using stop-motion animation by rearranging mud into mythological narratives. The project involves reframing abortion