Juneau Projects

Every year we invite an artist to work with a local audience in Lismore over a sustained period of time, to create a meaningful, collaborative project. In 2018, Lismore Castle Arts invited Juneau Projects to develop a collaborative print project with members of the Lismore community. The participants have produced a series of linocut illustrations for inclusion in a new publication.

The starting point for the project was David Nash’s work ‘Three Lismore Columns’ in the lower gardens at Lismore Castle. Juneau Projects asked participants to make Lino-cut illustrations based on a short science-fiction style text, considering the sculpture from the perspective of the flora and fauna living and growing around it - a fly lands on the sculpture, a mushroom grows next to it, a lichen spreads slowly on its surface.

The project made up one half of a two part publication exploring the similarities between Lismore, Ireland and Windham, Vermont, USA through lino-printing workshops. The illustrations made accompanied the text in the finished book.

Set in a world after the breakdown of technology, The Wooden Node tells the story of the spread of a new kind of fungus and how it adapts to its circumstances. The fungus begins by manipulating insects and animals and ends up shaping the actions of a whole village of people as they fall under its influence. Wooden sculptures and intelligent fungal networks meet in the landscape of the Infocalypse - the information apocalypse.