Lithic Alliances 'Kathryn Maguire will engage Sligo Field Club, Sligo Community Archaeology Project and Sligo Neolithic Landscapes to research and learn about the geological events that created Sligo, with the community and with expert advice led by Irish Geological Association.Together they will develop and research a new art work that shall involve a community that shares a commonality – the love of stone, soil and Earth ‘Geophilia’. Kathryn will be mentored by Vaari Claffey.'
https://www.create-ireland.ie/aic-scheme-2022-round-two-successful-recipients/
“the landscape tells - or rather is - a story. It enfolds the lives and times of predecessors who, over the generations, have moved around in it and played their part in its formation. To perceive the landscape is therefore to carry out an act of remembrance, and remembering is not so much a matter of calling up an internal image, stored in the mind, as of engaging perpetually with the environment that is itself pregnant with the past” Ingold
