Farm Walks
The Farm Walks project was co-created by Leitrim County Council Arts Office and The Dock Arts Centre with The Leitrim Sustainable Agriculture Group and the Ulster Wildlife Farmers’ Group in Fermanagh and funded through the Creative Ireland Shared Island Programme. Through the project, the partners aim to build cross-border cooperation, to explore the common ground between farmers and artists, and to highlight shared farming and environmental interests.
In 2024 the programme consisted of six walks (three in Leitrim and three in Fermanagh) which featured a tour of each farm and a talk by an invited artist whose work resonates with that farm, its creative potential, heritage or other special characteristics. While this demonstrated the crossover and shared interests of artists and farmers in the two counties, this next phase of the project in 2025, which is split into two parts, will provide the opportunity for artists and farmers to work together for longer periods on projects of shared interest. Both artists and farmers are paid for their time, and further funding will be sought to bring any ideas arising from those partnerships to fruition.
The project seeks to develop a platform for creative collaboration between artists and farmers, providing alternatives to the current view, and making connections and linkages where they may not have existed previously. The project takes from international models which have shown that there is a real demand not only from farmers looking to explore the capacity of creativity to influence what they do, but also by artists wanting to interact with farmers and to and have positive impact and explore their practice in a farm environment.
Closing Date for Expression of Interest
Farmers – Midnight, Sunday 23rd February 2025
Artists – Midnight, Sunday 13th April 2025
Further Information
Leitrim Arts Office
Email: arts@leitrimcoco.ie
Ph: 071 96 20005 Ext 694
The Dock
Email: thedockartscentre@gmail.com
Ph: 071 96 50828
Web: www.thedock.ie