Open Studio
- with Christine Mackey

Join us for an Open Studio talk with residency artist Christine Mackey in the Garden Studio at Butler Gallery

Christine's focus for the studio garden residency has been sphagnum mosses, keystone species in the living body of wetland ecosystems. Extraordinary accumulators of water and carbon, sphagnum mosses build and sustain the boglands they inhabit over vast stretches of time, dying and regenerating in slow, continuous cycles.

In response to this residency, Christine has been closely observing the intricate structures of these plants and the hidden life forms that depend on them, a world revealed through patient, sustained looking. The resulting works trace the boundary between the visible and the microscopic, drawing attention to what is easily overlooked and yet ecologically essential.