Description
Presentations to the first Research Forum between the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and the Belfast School of Art. M. Moore presented the progress of the current research project partnered with Pembroke College, Cambridge, lead by Dr. Mark Wormald. The presentation featured shared partnerships, current research strands. It also featured the particular BSoA role in the research project, namely a partnership with Digital Heritage Age and Atlantic Technical University (Mr. Gary Dempsey) to use digital printing technologies to replicate and visualize ancient Irish relics (connected intellectually and thematically to the Pembroke College Archive), creating a new area of visual investigation. The exhibition plan outlined below, feature these new contemporary artifacts.In the early 2020’s Pembroke College acquired a significant portion of the Barrie Cooke Archive. This includes drawings, sketches and notes, and a visitors’ book. But also included is a significant collection of letters and poems that were shared between Seamus Heaney, Barrie Cooke and Poet Laureate Ted Hughes for well over 30 years. These exchanges examined their love of poetry, the land, and particularly their love of fishing. These exchanges expanded further into their concerns for the natural environment in Britain and Ireland and beyond. Since 2022 a number of visits to the Pembroke Archive and research meetings with Pembroke Fellow Dr. Mark Wormald, have led to a planned exhibition that will invite artists writers, scholars and poets to respond to the Archive under the working title ‘Living Water’. Current research partners, led by Dr. Wormald and Pembroke College include Cambridge University Library, the British Library, The National Library of Ireland, The National Museum of Ireland (both Kildare St and Collins Barracks) and Ulster University (BSoA).
| Period | 4 Sept 2025 |
|---|---|
| Held at | The National College of Art and Design |
| Degree of Recognition | International |