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Art in the Landscape An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 art in the landscape January 2021 Research undertaken by Ms. Terre Duffy, Q4 2020. Special thanks to Sally O’ Leary, Arts Officer Offaly County Council, Aoife O’Toole, Acting Public Art Coordinator Mayo, County Council and Noel Kelly, Director of Visual Artists Ireland, as project managers. Special thanks also to all the stakeholders who gave of their time so generously during the one to one zoom consultations. This research was funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon through the ‘Invitation to Collaboration’ Scheme. This is an award open to local authorities to apply for projects or initiatives that they identify as being of strategic significance to arts development locally, regionally and nationally. 2 An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 - art in the landscape An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 art in the landscape Contents Executive Summary 5 The Brief 7 Methodology 9 Context 10 Commissioning sculpture in the Irish context 11 Socially Engaged Practice 14 Sculpture Dublin 15 The Sculpture Parks/Trails Ireland 16 Case Studies for Learning 28 Measuring Impact 42 Lough Boora Sculpture Park 43 3P’s - Potency, Problems & Potential 45 Lough Boora – New Opportunities 51 Framework 53 Potential Partners 54 Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail 55 3P’s - Potency, Problems & Potential 57 Tír Sáile – A New Purpose 62 Framework 64 Potential Partners 65 Annex 66 An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 - art in the landscape 3 4 An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 - art in the landscape Executive Summary In early 2020, the partner organisations listed in the top 10 sculpture parks in the of Offaly County Council, Mayo County world by National Geographic in 2014 and Council and Visual Artists Ireland were to deliver Lough Boora Sculpture Park today awarded funding under the Arts Council’s would cost in excess of €2 Million. ‘An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme’, a The tourism sector is aware of the potential scheme open to local authorities to deliver and the economic return on investment projects or research that have strategic from Irish arts and culture. However, significance to arts development in Ireland. there appears to be a disconnect between The opportunity to conduct this research tourism and the arts and culture sector. The comes at a very opportune moment for future opportunities for both Lough Boora both Lough Boora Sculpture Park and Sculpture Park and Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail. For each site, the might lie in a deeper relationship between location stakeholders recognise that in the both sectors. years since the beginning of each project, The international case studies chosen the champions, ideas, focus and values have act as an international reference to what changed locally and nationally and thus have been identified as challenges to each there is a need to reconsider the purpose, of the locations including management, commitment and value of each site in this maintenance and promotion, ambition, changed context of 2020. culture and the climate change emergency A summary of the development of the land and culture and tourism. art and the environmental art movement To facilitate the readers, this research is presented as the contextual inspiration focused on the potency, problems and for both Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail and Lough potential of each location separately and a Boora Sculpture Park. The research also broad next steps framework for each. maps Irish Sculpture Parks and Trails and this mapping demonstrates that Tír Sáile Lough Boora Sculpture Park, represents Sculpture Trail and Lough Boora Sculpture a very powerful and developed body of Park are by far the most significant in twenty-five large scale sculptures and from Ireland. The Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail was the mapping exercise undertaken for this An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 - art in the landscape 5 study, is by far the most significant and na Móna are not a cultural, recreational or important collection of public sculpture in tourism development organisation, external Ireland. However there have been no new expertise is required to create this strategic sculptural commissions since 2010, some road map. of the current work is undermaintained and Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail represented the the overall product feels somewhat ‘tired’ best of community engaged practice and is not performing to its full potential as when it was developed in 1993. The trail a cultural tourism product. is currently being promoted as a cultural The sculpture park is part of Lough Boora tourism product in North Mayo and Discovery Park which is one of six lead although the brand name has currency projects in the Tourism Strategy for Offaly, locally, the product needs serious decisions with Lough Boora Sculpture Park remaining and investment in order to ensure it delivers a key element of the customer experience a great cultural experience at national and at the Discovery Park. In 2019, Bord na international level. Hard discussions and Móna commissioned Tourism Development decisions are now required by relevant local Ireland (TDI) to undertake a feasibility study stakeholders on whether to decommission / strategic report to develop ‘compelling, Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail or to determine if exciting and unique visitor experiences of the significant investment required would national and international significance’. This deliver an adequate return on investment. comprehensive report identifies six principal Note: Although beyond the scope of additions for Lough Boora Discovery Park this research, it would appear that the including ‘extending the park’s art and organisational deficits that have facilitated nature sculpture provision through the the decline of both Lough Boora Sculpture encouragement of artistic development Park and Tír Sáile Sculpture Trail are not and growth’. The report also outlined unique to Offaly and Mayo County Council potential opportunities and synergies for an but would seem to be symptomatic of expanded vision for Lough Boora Sculpture public sculpture in general in Ireland. In Park connected to the ‘Boora Works Events truth, there is usually funding to complete Centre’ which recommends a repurposing the commission, install, publicise, launch of the redundant industrial buildings close it but in the main, there is no long-term to the entrance of the park. However no legacy planning regarding maintenance. All further consideration was given to the assets and infrastructure need a resourced current status of the sculpture park, any maintenance plan – as with machinery, detail on its future development and no roads and sewerage treatment plans, funding requirement was identified in the public sculpture also needs the same TDI feasibility report. The time is right to resourced commitment. Local authorities ascertain the full potential of the sculpture are addressing this difficult, expensive park element with a view to developing an and often time-consuming issue through ambitious strategy to yield the full social, an increasing reluctance to commission creative, economic and tourism potential permanent sculpture. of Lough Boora Sculpture Park. As Bord 6 An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 - art in the landscape The Brief In early 2020, the partner organisations of What are the proposed Offaly County Council, Mayo County Council research outcomes? and Visual Artists Ireland were awarded funding under the Arts Council’s ‘Invitation The proposed research outcomes for this to Collaboration Scheme 2020’. This is a project are both comprehensive and varied scheme open to local authorities to deliver and are intended to provide an increased projects or research that have strategic level of awareness and understanding of significance to arts development locally, land art and sculpture parks in regional regionally and nationally and in this instance locations in Ireland, while assessing the research project focuses on Lough Boora how each designated site can be further Sculpture Park in Co. Offaly and Tír Sáile developed. This research seeks to: Sculpture Trail in Co. Mayo. • Present the context for the This document presents findings and insights development of land art and from an intensive four-month research environmental sculpture period from August to November 2020, • Present the methodology for this involving a high-level literature review, research desk-based research and an extensive list of • Map existing sculpture parks and one-to-one consultations listed in the Annex sculpture trails in Ireland with Section. The opportunity to conduct this emphasis on operational, financial and research comes at a very opportune moment curatorial models for both Lough Boora Sculpture Park and Tír Sáile sculpture Trail. For each site, the • Identify issues and extrapolate location stakeholders recognise that in the learning from relevant national and years since the beginning of each project, international case studies the champions, ideas, focus and values have • Understand impact measurement with changed locally and nationally and thus there respect to public engagement and is a need to reconsider the purpose of each audience development site and a framework to move forward in this • Identify the potency, problems and changed context of 2020. potential of each location An Invitation to Collaboration Scheme 2020 - art in the landscape 7 In distilling insights and learning, the Visual Artists Ireland as the third partner research will: in this project acts as the
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