The KinShip Project is a durational public artwork at Tramore Valley Park by Cork City Council in partnership with artists Lennon Taylor (Marilyn Lennon and Sean Taylor), supported by Creative Ireland and local partners that include Cork Nature Network, Cork Healthy Cities, Cork’s UNESCO Learning City, Green Spaces for Health, MTU Clean Technology Lab and UCC Environmental Research Institute. It commenced in 2021 as one of 15 initiatives nationally supported by the Creative Climate Action Award.
Pictured from left to right in front of the KinShip EcoLab at the official launch : KinShip Founder and Joint Lead Artist Seán Taylor, Uilleann Piper Johnny McCarthy, KinShip Founder and Joint Lead Artist Marilyn Lennon, Master Thatcher John Barron, Engineer Kieran Ruane (Civil and Structural Engineering Advisors Ltd), Architect and Hand Builder Seán Ó'Muirí (Fuinneamh Workshop Architects), Kinship Administrator Angela Houlihan, Uilleann Piper Eoin O Riabhaigh, Creative Communities Engagement Officer Louise Tangney (Cork City Council) and Biodiversity Officer Rosemarie MacDonald (Cork City Council) .
The project includes a programme of citizen-led skills and knowledge based public exchanges, artist's placements, the construction of a KinShip EcoLab based on sustainable construction methods, and a focused series of interventions in the park.
KinShip - we are not separate from nature, but an interdependent part of it.
For more information about the KinShip project and to find out how you can get involved in activities taking place at the KinShip EcoLab, follow this link to the KinShip website and check on social medial for updates.
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