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December 6th - 8th
Soil Project Exhibition - Learning Centre
The Soil Project Exhibition will showcase the cabbage growing experiment that took place on site at the Butler Gallery Gardens in 2024. Ten mini plots were created to investigate soil. From March to October, twenty six students from St Johns Senior School made art, played with soil and grew cabbages from seed with artist Joanna Hopkins. This exhibition will re-purpose the outdoor cabbage growing beds, and transform them into indoor art display tables. The exhibition will feature drawings, videos, seeds and photos created over nine months, from both the artist and all of the school children involved.
The Soil Project is an annual commission at Butler Gallery which supports invited artists to create participatory projects which connect deeply with the environment, the world around us and the soil beneath our feet.
About the Artist
Joanna Hopkins is an Irish artist working in video, collage, drawing, photography and installation. Her research based practice includes collaborative and socially engaged projects, often working site specifically. By exploring a contemporary interpretation of traditional folklore, and the metaphysical gap between humans & plants – can we view our bodies as extensions of a living landscape? Recent Solo exhibitions include Fruitier Bodies, Lexicon Gallery, Dun Laogahire 2024; Fruity Bodies, GOMA Waterford 2023; The Growing Gallery, 2022, Lexicon Gallery, Dun laoghaire, Dublin; Sympathetic Soup, 2021, Cregan Building, Dublin City University; Connecting, BNA Neuroscience Conference for the Science Gallery Dublin, 2019. Recent awards include CREATE Collaborative Arts Project Realisation Award 2024; Visual Artist Bursary Award Arts Council of Ireland 2023; Platform 31 Artist Award 2022; Visual Artist Bursary Award Arts Council of Ireland 2021; Meath County Council Professional Development Artist 2022 & 2023, Dublin City University Artist in Residence Award, 2020-2021; An Urgent Enquiry: Artist in Residence for Fingal County Council, 2019, collaborating with Mary Conroy on a site specific public art installation. Previous residencies and public art commissions include Artist in Residence in a Healthcare Setting, Bealtine, 2017; 'A Marram Meithal', Mayo Arts Offce Tir Saile Public Art Residency 2017; CURAM Art & Science Residency, National University of Ireland Galway, 2015 and FIND, Public Art Commission, Mayo Arts Office, 2014.
www.joannahopkins.com
