Grace Haynes Residency

Grace Haynes is a visual artist and educator from the Cavan/Monaghan region and relocated to Cork City in 2023. She graduated with a BA honours in Illustration and Graphic Design. She is currently a socially engaged artist working in the community and works as a Creative Associate with the creative schools in initiative and an associate artist with Helium Arts in Cork.

Her work to date, is concerned with the natural world, taking inspiration from flora and fauna found natively in Ireland. She has recently begun to explore alternative process in eco arts, including in making and natural dyes which she then combines in her visual work. She is currently doing a certificate in Eco Arts Practice at the Crawford, Cork.

Grace Haynes has been collaborating with musician composer Lauren Mc Clean to develop an immersive multi sensory exhibition exploring diverse landscapes and the biodiversity within, aimed at young audiences.

This residency will enable Grace to consolidate this body of work in a multidisciplinary context, by creating a series of dioramas of each habitat, including woodlands and forests, the Burren, shorelines, sea cliffs and islets, marshland, bogs and wet lands, orchid-rich grassland and lakes and ponds.

Lauren Mc Clean will work with her to create a soundscape to complement the dioramas.

This residency will not only enable Grace to develop the work but to test the proposed exhibition’s muti sensory and interactive elements with audiences in Triskel.