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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.
Through video, photography and sculpture, I want to explore a contemporary interpretation of traditional folklore. Working environmentally, using natural plant dyes found in my immediate landscape, I want to transpose versions of folklore into contemporary settings. It is a way to explore identity, empathy for our natural environment & to better understand the human condition. All of the work has been made by gathering, foraging and walking. I am interested in making abstract, hybrid connections between non human entities and our human selves. My work is an abstract, non linear exploration, using a modern day cailleach figure to embody medical folklore, based on the healing power of plants, and focusing on the female body. By slowly gathering colours and stories taken from the land, then placing them back into the landscape, I want to bridge the metaphysical gap between humans & plants - can our bodies be extensions of the living landscape?
Joanna Hopkins is a visual artist working in video, drawing, photography and installation, often using place specific vegetation as inspiration. Recent commissions include invited artist for The Soil Project, Butler Gallery Kilkenny, 2024, and a CREATE Project Realisation Award 2024, working with Beaufort Nursing Home in Navan, from 2023 – 2024.
Solo exhibitions include Fruitier Bodies, Lexicon Gallery, Dun Laoghaire 2024; Fruity Bodies, GOMA Waterford 2023; Sympathetic Soup, 2021, Cregan Building, Dublin City University; The Growing Gallery, a dementia inclusive installation for the Lexicon Gallery, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, 2022; The Dublin City University Artist in Residence Award, 2020-2021, and Connecting, a solo exhibition for the BNA Neuroscience Conference, Science Gallery Dublin, 2019.
Public art commissions include An Urgent Enquiry: Artist in Residence for Fingal County Council, 2019, collaborating with Mary Conroy on a site specifc public art installation; 'A Marram Meithal', Mayo Arts Office Tír Sáile Public Art Residency 2017.