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Wilderland has two websites, one always-on, higher resolution website that is heavier to run, and one experimental, situated site, that is solar powered, and in the Nephin Park
The solar site might not always be on or available, it also has other quirks, and will be slower. Adjust your expectactions for this Permacomputing + Small Web alternative.
We are inviting artists and creative practitioners to create site-responsive, public artworks that explore our relationship to wild nature, and engage with Wild Nephin National Park and the townlands and communities on its periphery to address the biodiversity crisis at a local level in Mayo.
We are looking for artworks that activate our imaginations with regard to biodiversity and habitat loss, and open our eyes anew to the local landscape, its wildlife, and our place in its ecology networks.
We are seeking creative ways to engage with communities, to explore their lived experience of place, and open a dialogue about their relationship with nature and use of their local landscape and its resources. Our goal is to address environmental challenges through collaborative and learning-oriented, place-based engagement, and encourage behavioural change towards people-led climate action at individual and community level.
All our latest events and creative workshops are on our events page.
And you can follow each artist’s activities on their individual and project pages, to find out how you and your community can join their collaborative public art and biodiversity projects.
Our project artists are dedicated to exploring material choices and processes of production that support this in the creation of their artwork. They consider the environmental impact of their work and how they will approach this during their public art commissions, through materials and waste, travel and transport, and the installation and legacy of their artworks in the landscape.
All our artists support sustainable and low carbon options for their artwork and artistic processes where feasible, and are encouraged to utilise native, natural, found and waste or recycled materials sourced from the locality in their artworks and public and community workshops. The focus is on promoting sustainable use of materials and using collaborative, creative activities to initiate conversation about how we relate to, use and protect our natural environment, its resources and its plant & animal life.
Wilderland is also providing Sustainable Arts Bursary awards to support local artists, creative practitioners or arts collectives in Mayo to develop their practice towards more sustainable and environmentally conscious ways of working.
Find out more about the Sustainable Arts Bursary
Wilderland is collaborating with the Materials Matter arts collective to bring their sustainable arts project to Mayo and support local artists in developing more sustainable and environmentally conscious arts practices. Find out more on the Materials Matter project page.