When The Tide Comes In - a workshop at Naylor's Cove with Eilis Fanning

Join us at Naylor’s Cove, for a rust painting workshop. Using pieces of steel and a simple chemical process to create instant rust, we will be making metalwork artworks in response to the cove, a derelict open air swimming pool situated under Bray Head. Participants will be invited to consider the relationship between rising sea levels and the creation and decay of infrastructure along the urban coastline through exploring and making art on the beach with steel and salt.

Please note that this workshop will take place outdoors, and suitable clothing and footwear is required. Naylor’s Cove is accessible by stairs descending from the picnic bench area at the start of the cliff walk trail up to Bray Head - unfortunately this workshop is not accessible for wheelchair users. Limited parking is available at the Cliff Walk Car Park and on Strand Road.

Eilis Fanning
Eilis Fanning is a visual artist with a BA (hons) in Fine Art from Limerick School of Art and Design, and 8 years of experience working in outdoor education and recreation. Her work combines oil painting on metal and metalwork installation, with a process driven by intense experiential field research, while taking influence from speculative fiction, history, and folklore. Working within the changing context methods of land inhabitation in the 21st century, her practice challenges established perspectives that create the tangled relationships between person and place. Exploring themes of change, freedom, otherness and fear, my work takes the Irish landscape and twists it into a strange and fluctuating new world, haunted by the ghosts of its past and future.