The 2015 Visual Arts programme for King House was launched on 18 April and opened with an exhibition titled The Lung by Christine Mackey, running parallel with Contexts:01, an exhibition of works from the Boyle Civic Art Collection that respond to Christine’s work.

Mackey’s work involved an engagement with students from St. Nathys College and the local community. This process led to the publication of BACKLANDS a fold-out map devised through a series of inventive strategies for exploring the town of Ballaghaderreen. Through this ‘logging’ process, Mackey has developed an installation work using materials including ceramic tiles, sewage piping and aluminium that relates to an abandoned outdoor swimming pool in the ‘Lung’ townland. This work explores The Lung as a multi-facet site; a pre-historic boundary, tributary river of the Shannon, site of a water power dam and abandoned swimming pool. A site with the powerful force of the river as a memory field, marker of historic potentials and social container.

Contact linda@lindashevlin.com for further information on the visual arts @King House.