Below is the Gallery blurb and some of my photographs:-
This exhibition continues Mackey’s ongoing investigation into how our earth is approached and managed, our relationship to the earth's history and our direct relationship to how we manage its produce.
The aesthetic of Mackey’s art lends itself to rhythms and patterns, to the labour around the management of SEED MATTER wherever we are in the globe. Christine Mackey employs diverse disciplines, subject matter and tactics to generate different kinds of knowledge of place, including their hidden histories and ecological formations. Using aesthetics as well as quasi-scientific methods, her work explores the interactive potential of art as a research tool and its capacity for social and environmental change. She looks at Art as imbued with active agency a field of endeavour.
Christine Mackey lives and works in North Leitrim. Her practice combines site-specific and public works, exhibitions, performance, and art-books. Mackey has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally and is a recipient of numerous awards and residencies
This video piece shows Mackey planting an apple tree in a council storeyard. When she had previously visited the site, some years earlier, it had been an orchard.
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