Walls & Halls Tour
The Quickening by Deirdre O’Mahony
Screening & Conversation
Saturday 4 May 2024, 11am-12.30pm
Join us for a special screening of The Quickening, a powerful new artwork by ground-breaking artist Deirdre O’Mahony which responds to urgent issues facing farming, food production and the environment. Developed over thre...
Oisín and I love books, over the course of 20 years we have gathered a library on the subjects that most interest us.
A section of that collection has now traveled to VOID Art Centre in Derry-Londonderry, where it is part of a wonderful...
Photo credit: Candice Earle-Hutton Photography, 2023.
Blackbird Cultur-Lab was thrilled to host Viviana Checchia as our first Autumn...
We are delighted to host the wonderful library of FEEDER, part of the research-based installation about landscape, farming, food production and the sustainable use of natural resources that Irish artist Deirdre O’Mahony created in 2022 at t...
It was an absolute delight and great fun doing the two Cruinniú na nÓg workshops: “Soil, Clay and Natural Pigments” with soil scientist Luis López Sangil and myself, and “Natural Inks” with artist David Begley.
Both workshops were full...
Blackbird Cultur-Lab is thrilled to take part again in Cruinniú na nÓg.
This year we will offer two workshops for children ages 7-12 and their parents.
We had the incredible privilege and pleasure to take part this April in the seminar "The Actor: Composer and Catalyst of Culture" and in a couple of cultural barters in Aculco and Mexico City, México.
They were all led by musician, dir...
It was an incredible pleasure to witness the creative journey of Richard Malone over the 4 weeks of his research residency at Blackbird.
On March 18th we hosted a show of his work in progress. Richard and I talked about his process, his...
Creative Freedom
We are thrilled to host Irish visual artist and fashion designer Richard Malone as this year's Research Resident.
We developed the Spring Residency to give time and space for professionals to explore links between dif...
One of this year's pilot projects has been the "Cut-Flower" paddock. In the previous post I had talked about the different trials and mistakes I made before creating proper beds using the no-dig method. We are now beginning to plan the nex...
What a glorious Summer we had in Ireland! As I write these words the rain has come back with force. It is good for the land as it had been dry for the past few months.
Our multi-species swards surprised us in so many ways. They were wonde...
On Saturday June 11th we had the pleasure to host many children and their parents for two different workshops:
In "Grow your Own Veggies in a Box" participants observed and matched different types of seeds, seedlings and vegetables. The...
Blackbird Cultur-Lab is delighted to be part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2022 this Saturday June 11th.
We will offer two different workshops for children and their parents:
"1. Grow your Own Veggie Friends in a Box"
Time: 11:00a.m. – ...
Regenerative Agriculture -or Biological Farming, as it is also known- aims to restore the health of the soil and of all the ecosystems related to it.
It is a holistic approach where the first step is to sustain, nurture and "build" soil by...
On Saturday April 9th Blackbird Cultur-Lab opened its doors to the public. Children and people of all ages gathered to look at the work in progress developed by International and Irish artists Karl Logge, Sarah Lundy, Laurence O'Toole, Mar...
Janice Li, our Spring Research Resident, was amazed to discover the many treasures and talents that Wexford and Ireland have to offer.
We packed her schedule with visits to Ceodogán Rugs, [Emblem Weavers](https://...
Curator Janice Li has been with us for a few days and we have already been learning so much from her.
We arranged a visit for her and the artists taking part in Leeward at Cow House Studios, to the research centre of Teagasc in Wexford...
Blackbird Cultur-Lab is delighted to announce its first Spring Research Residency.
London-based curator Janice Li will stay at our farmhouse for two weeks to do research about natural cycles, seasonality, agricultural work and their impac...
Our farmhouse was designed from scratch with the idea of hosting various types of experimental and cultural events; aside from being our private home.
We took inspiration in vernacular Irish architecture and combined that with the heritag...
One of the main influences that moved us to open Blackbird Cultur-Lab was the work of Odin Teatret-Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium and that of Kai Bredholt in particular.
Odin Teatre Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium
Odin Teatret ...
