the empire of the senses

In Singing Stones the artist Cathal McGinley and the curator/researcher Declan Sheehan are making new work with the stone that is featured in fragments of Irish archives – from maps, to newspapers, to hunger and welfare, crime and punishment, performance and art.
Look out for #singingstones online and onsite in West Donegal, as part of Cathal McGinley’s open studio at An Gailearai in Gweedore from September to mid October 2020.
Research featured includes The Freeman’s Journal, Monday 29 December 1890 AND The Graphic, Saturday 6 December 1890 AND part of a composite image combining all of the Geological Survey’s ‘index to colours’ charts, which illustrated the 497 standard colours (some with an ornament overlay) for the colouring of geological maps copied in Issue 61 of The Edinburgh Geologist, 2017