Tombolo, By Lay Of The Land

Brow Head, Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork

Thu 16 May 2019 - Sun 19 May 2019 (note: this event has already taken place)
1pm
FREE

Lay of the Land will be returning to Brow Head from the 16-19th May for it's third iteration of Tombolo. Six artists will spend two weeks in residency on the headland. They will develop and create artworks that respond directly to the landscape, history and heritage of the area. The residency will culminate in a four-day exhibition and will be open to the public daily from noon on Thursday 16th, to dusk on Sunday 19th of May.

LOTL produce powerful, imaginative and considered projects that take artists to a profound level of engagement with our wild places. They support artists who primarily focus on landscape, whose themes of environment, community, heritage and collaboration are intrinsic to, and reflected in their work, and who share their concepts with the local community.

LOTL residencies give artists the chance to create in an environment free from traditional expectations, unlocking the potential for new work to emerge. Inherent in the work is a kind of surrender to geographical context, which releases the artists from their usual axis of practice, and opens