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URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/artist-talk-from-furze-to-flame-drawin
 g-stories-from-our-uplands-at-roundwood-parish-hall
SUMMARY:Artist Talk | From Furze to Flame: Drawing Stories from our Uplands
  at Roundwood Parish Hall
DESCRIPTION:\nDiscover how ancient burning practices\, wild plants\, and di
 sappearing traditions still shape our cultural landscape.\n\n\n\nJoin us w
 ith artist-in-residence Shane Finan for a public talk on his fascinating w
 ork with FIRECULT\, (https://jpi-climate.eu/project/firecult/) an internat
 ional project exploring how wildfire impacts cultural heritage. Shane delv
 es into Irish upland traditions—particularly the historic burning of ait
 eann (furze/gorse)—and how fire was once both a tool and a symbol in rur
 al life. From folklore to flora\, he transforms aiteann and sitka spruce i
 nto drawing charcoal to tell a story of loss\, resilience\, and renewal.\n
 \n\n\nWildfire is a natural earth system process in close interactive rela
 tionship with human activity since prehistoric times\, that has shaped cul
 tural landscapes and defined ways of life. Humans use fire to modify their
  landscape\, clear land for agriculture and development and replenish soil
  nutrients.\n\n\n\nAt the same time\, fire's destructive power endangers l
 ivelihoods and landscapes. Anthropogenic climate change disrupts the fine 
 balance between wildfire and humans\, directly through its influence on th
 e natural environment and indirectly by impacting on societal structures a
 nd behaviours\, threatening tangible and intangible cultural heritage. To 
 this day\, there is little understanding on the role of wildfire in damagi
 ng or creating cultural heritage.\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Leinster
LOCATION:Roundwood Parish Hall\, Main Street Roundwood\, Co. Wicklow\, Irel
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