For this project, installed at the Glucksman Gallery for Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, I have built nesting boxes sourced from sustainable timber from the Lisnavagh Timber Project. The purpose built habitats for blue tits and the ecology of a woodland became a lens for exploring and making visual a multiple species world. Within the nesting boxes was a small fiber based sculpture, constructed with wool, sourced from Galway sheep. Each ball of wool was dyed from pigments created from oak galls, bracken and nettles. At the end of the nesting season, after the birds had built their nests inside the nesting box, and the young had fledged, the collaboratively made sculptures were removed and installed in the gallery. Using Donna Haraway’s notion of making kin, this project seeks to materially join, through sculpture: birds, sheep, flora, trees, and humans.

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