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In 2017, Jackie spent six months gathering research by walking the land and speaking to the knowledgeable locals of Ballyhaise. This locality is where she grew up and still lives today and so it was important to explore deep into its roots. The Exhibition itself launched in the beautiful Agricultural College in Ballyhaise in August 2017 as part of heritage week and creative Ireland. This was a huge success and it was wonderfully received by locals. Each print in the Scéalta Dàr dTalún exhibition tells a story of Ballyhaise land and the artwork is Jackie’s artistic interpretation of these stories, myths, and facts.
“As I walk through the Ballyhaise landscape regularly, I look, I listen, I wait. I know there are messages to be discovered from deep within the soil. I know we can’t know for sure what happened here before, my hope is to create a passageway for the viewer into the curiosities of the river Annalee, the one tree, the others trees, the harvests, the battles, along with the creatures and characters that might have previously walked this land.
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