Biomaterials in Artistic Practice
with Eileen Hutton

Biomaterials in Artistic Practice

A free workshop for adults in conjunction with Kilkenny Science Festival

This free hands-on workshop will provide participants with introductory knowledge on how to create bio-based objects and materials. Participants will learn practical methods for creating biodegradable "resins" and "plastics." Experimenting with gelatin, agar-agar, everyday kitchen items and waste streams such as single use plastic, we will create a variety of alternative artistic materials.

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: 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 principle lecturer on the Art & Ecology Master’s programme at Burren College of Art.

This is a free ticketed event but places are limited to 15 participants.