WOVEN - Joe Hogan

A Practice Rooted in the Landscape of Galway

Throughout December we have been screening WOVEN at the gallery, with the kind permission of Tristan Hutchinson. 

A project carried out slowly over several years, the documentary captures the practice of Joe Hogan and the landscape in Galway that influences his work. 

His basketry explores the interconnection between human life and the natural world. Through organic forms made from grown and gathered materials, he reflects on biodiversity loss, ecology, and our place within the living web of things.

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Filmed and directed by Tristain Hutchinson, edited by Bellow Creative, and Original Music by Thomas Hill.

"It is a way to explore what it means to be at home in the world. One of the seed ideas that started this project was an image from Mary Oliver's poem, Wild Geese where she talks about the world “offering itself to our imagination”, calling to us like the wild geese, reminding; each one of us of our place in the ' family of things '."

- Joe Hogan