Eileen took time to focus on her practice in soil chromatography and ongoing collaborative project Roots for the Future: A Radical Climate Thinking Group. During her residency Eileen mentored two young artists on a tailored professional development residency as part of the Youth Ecology Art Summer Residency. YEA members worked alongside Eileen in Butler Gallery’s Garden Studio, gaining insight into how to pursue and sustain a career in the arts, and mentoring on a project.

About the artist:

Eileen Hutton is a visual artist whose practice aims to generate reciprocal relationships with the more than human world and in the process create replicable models for informed ecological actions. Recent projects include 2024: Climate Art Assembly, Project Arts Center, Festival of Change Lough Boora & Tir Saile, 2022: Home, Being and Belonging; The Glucksman, Mycelial Communities; Butler Gallery, Performing Ecologies, Interface, Seeing & Sensing Soil; Earth Rising IMMA. Ongoing collaborative projects include Roots for the Future, Project Art Centre and Youth, Ecology & Art collective Butler Gallery. She is a contributing author to 'Ecoart in Action' and 'becoming-Feral: A beastiarum Vocabulum' and Sharing Agricultural & Gardening Cultures in Ireland GIS EIRE. Hutton is also the Head of Art & Ecology at Burren College of Art.