Christine Mackey (Cuilcagh-Anierin Uplands SAC, Ireland)
Christine is an independent research-based visual artist attending to complex environmental issues, iterated through a range of site-specific and socially engaged contexts, mediated and assembled through a range of material and digital processes. Her work is meticulously researched and interdisciplinary in scope, and pursues a narrative structure based on an assemblage of key research material, sites of interest, and community integration. Dissemination can take many forms – from a physical permanent structure and growing systems such as the community garden for THE POTTING SHED or an organic inspired floating garden that acts as a support system to other species woven in willow – MESOCOSM. In her work with WaterLANDS, Christine will investigate key project interventions at the site such as waterflows, carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. She will conceptualise and visualise characteristic features of the blanket bog, considering the keystone vegetation such as sphagnum moss and the ecosystems that rely on it and integrate community perceptions into her work.
