The art of our rural life

Rurality — the experience and manifestation of living in rural situations — can have a voice and expression in art practice.

It happens a government department appears to encompass art, rural affairs and the Irish language. It is incumbent upon those engaging in each to let be known these facets are far from marginal.

In the horrors of the boom-bust time, practitioners in art and culture have had to take recourse to the line of making protest as ‘spatial strategy’ and motorway money trumped the lived space of people.