Offaly to feature in major New York photo exhibition 'Bog Women'

Offaly will feature in the ‘Bog Women’ exhibition running in New York from June 9 to 15 next.

Visual artist Eamonn Farrell is one of 29 European artists whose work will be on display in the Gorgeous Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

Farrell’s photographs deal with the issue of climate change and his dramatic images feature the naked female form in various Bog of Allen settings on the Kildare, Offaly border.

The Bog Women images are from his Death and Resurrection series, which also feature a video which was a finalist in the online section of the Waterford International Short Film Festival 2022.

Farrell began dealing with the global warming theme in 2009, with his Elements of Nature Project, of which his present work is a vital part.

He says of his current show: - “Our Irish bogs contain the history of our nation, going back to the time the first primitive people arrived on our land from the south and east of the known world. The remains of many of them are buried deep in the bogs which are scattered through our countryside and which are now central to the sometimes bitter debate on Global Warming. Is an awakening possible?

“The peat bogs are a fantastic natural resource with which to combat Climate Change by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. At our peril should we continue to use them to harvest fuel. To continue to do so has the double effect of contributing to the amount of carbon heading skywards and the destruction of the sinkholes capable of trapping it. Planet Earth is ours. We cannot live without it. But it will happily live on without us.”

Farrell’s work has featured in galleries, books and magazines in Ireland and abroad.

More information can be gleaned from his website www.eamonnfarrellart.com