Aesthetics

The weather and landscape – the muted natural light, flora and fauna, the wet and mild gulf stream climate – all shape the way life is lived in Ireland. Spending more time living indoors and in covered spaces than Southern Europeans, homes are not only a protection from the elements, they are our primary social spaces.

This lived experience informs the work of artists, designers and makers whose diverse responses and interpretations of nature are noted through structure, form, use of colour, pattern, texture and materials.