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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.
Materials Matter / Ábhar Ábhar is a collaborative project devised by three artists and educators, Clare Breen, Mary Conroy and Laura Ní Fhlaibhín. Their individual practices share the common denominator of sustainability and environmental awareness within the process of art production.
Wilderland has invited the Materials Matter collective to Wild Nephin National Park, to collaborate with local communities in creating public artworks that explore our connection to nature and raise awareness of the biodiversity crisis at a local level.
This will be supported by public workshops in sustainable arts studio practice and methods of production using natural, found, waste and recycled materials. The Materials Matter artists will also be supporting our Sustainable Arts Bursary programme, providing mentoring and skills-training for local artists in developing more sustainable and environmentally conscious arts practices.
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Materials Matter, Ábhar Ábhar is a container, a holder, a way of thinking and a movement, that explores the production of sustainable art materials. The aim is to bring together practices and forgotten ways of working that are passed along, embellished, reworked, indigenous or partially remembered.
We live in a time where we need to change our approach to production and consumption. We have all become disconnected from the mass produced products we use in our daily lives - artists and their materials are no exception. These three art workers share the desire to develop and disseminate a way of working that not only reflects their own personal commitment to material sustainability within their practices, but a desire to assist others to make art sustainably.
Their website documents research, testing, developing and collating a series of methods and recipes for the production of natural and DIY art materials and tools. This resource aims to revive craft knowledge and the use of natural materials while working with low cost, locally sourced raw ingredients.
You can find out more about Materials Matter and see all their methods and recipes on the Materials Matter website and follow their Wilderland activities on each artist’s individual page and project pages on this website.