In 2025 Cork Biodiversity Hub approached me about creating a collaborative mural with their membership and others to signal a move to a place they could call home at the Powder Mills in Ballincollig. The idea was to bring disparate groups and individuals into a space where they could share their passion for nature and contribute to creating a welcoming space on the new premises.
We gathered in groups large and small including Ballincollig Tidy towns, local primary and secondary schools and famillies, The Cork Rivers Alliance Group, members on the Biodiversity Hub mailing list and the Circular Economy Sewing Group all meeting in the new Hub.
We held a special event celebrating river invertebrates for Heritage day, The Friends of the Dripsey River came in costume and Pauilne Cummins delivered a lecture on kick sampling, the tiles on this day included May fly, Stonefly and Caddis fly larvae and a leech encouraged by humanoid invertebrate cheerleadrers
During the course of the summer months we created hundreds of tiles and glazed them, in the studio I made extra tiles to add context and flow
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