Join artist Shane Finan for this online event, as he discusses his recent FIRECULT artist residency.

FIRECULT is an international research project investigating how wildfires affect cultural heritage, with partners in the UK, Ireland, Italy and Turkey.

Shane spent 3 months working with the University College Dublin and the Wicklow Uplands Forum exploring the Irish heritage of wildfires and the traditions and intangible cultures around the burning of aiteann (also known as gorse) in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland.

Throughout the residency Shane used fire as a creative medium and through his practice of drawing, video and installation, he seeks to introduce the idea that intangible cultural heritage is never truly destroyed.

* This is an online event and a meeting link will be sent to ticket holders on the morning of the 17 June, so please leave an email address when making your booking. *

Shane Finan assembles artworks from interactive contemporary technologies, found objects and traditional artistic media. His work is based in rural environments and examines technologies in human and nonhuman entanglements. He always collaborates, recently working with and learning from artists, crustose lichen, environmental scientists, farmers and fungi.

FIRECULT (Wildfire Resilient Cultural Heritage) is an international collaborative research project that examines the relationship between wildfires, community and cultural heritage. The artist residency programme is delivered by Imperial College London, Newcastle University and The Maltings (Berwick) Trust with University College Dublin, Izmir Institute of Technology and University of Palermo. It has been funded by the Belmont Forum and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).