Lisa Fingleton: An artist embedded with eco-minded farmers on the Dingle Peninsula 

The fruits of Fingleton's time spent with ten farming families are currently on display at the Crawford in Cork 

Lisa Fingleton and John Joe Fitzgerald during the filming of Voices from the Field/Guthanna ón nGort. Picture: Chris Garrett  

Art and farming may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but Lisa Fingleton combines both in a career that also finds room for book writing and filmmaking. Working from the Barna Way, the small farm outside Ballybunion, Co Kerry, she manages with her partner, the photographer Rena Blake, Fingleton has recently completed work on a film project called Voices from the Field/Guthanna ón nGort.

Voices from the Field/Guthanna ón nGort, currently showing at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, follows ten farming families on the Dingle peninsula as they engage with the effects of climate change. The film was commissioned by the Dingle Hub, and was one of 15 projects funded by Creative Ireland whose brief was to embed artists in local communities and produce creative climate action projects.