Jools Gilson of UCC: Mapping Climate Change at Cork's newest art venue
Jools Gilson is curator of Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project, currently in Cork.
It’s always a delight when new exhibition spaces for art pop up around Cork city. The latest is at 1 Horgan's Quay, near Kent railway station, where Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map and The Tempestry Project will run until December 6. The exhibition, curated by Jools Gilson, Professor of Creative Practice at UCC, is the very first at the venue.
“The space is extraordinary,” says Gilson. “It’s the mezzanine of what used to be a CIE warehouse. It was where materials were stored when they were being brought up and down to Cork by train. It’s really open to the city, right in the heart of it, and it overlooks the River Lee, so you can see the rowers going by, and the boats. And then there are the skylights above us; we’ve had rain one moment, and sunshine the next.”
