Jen Harrington – Sábhaile Munna

Ballymun is Brilliant provided a bursary for Ballymun based Artists. The bursary invited visual artists, writers, musicians, dancers, poets, theatre makers, spoken word artists etc who are from or live in Ballymun and open to creating a piece that responds to the themes of climate action and climate justice in Ballymun.

Jen Harrington was one of the recipients of the Ballymun is Brilliant Artist Bursary.

Jen Harrington

Jen Harrington is an early-career multimedia artist working in crochet, painting and digital media. As well as film and photograph works, Jen creates Irish crochet works and digital painting in response to themes around community, wildlife, flora, tradition, identity and death. Jen works closely with local community groups and projects she has contributed to include Phizzfest, Dublin Canvas, Ballymun is Brilliant, Meakstown Community Centre, Disrupt, The Den Youth Club and more.

Project Details

Jen’s project Sábhaile Munna involved photography and experimental Irish crochet in response to spaces around Ballymun which she felt reflected themes of climate action. The sculptural pieces are emblems of protection, adornment and grief articulating anxieties around climate justice in the community of Ballymun. Jen highlighted the preciousness of biodiversity through art, not just as an aesthetic or utilitarian “resource”, but as an intrinsically valuable aspect of local and global environmental health; as an indicator of what is respected by the community; and as avatar of hope in a capitalist society which is increasingly sacrificing growing things.

Jens great work can be viewed and explored via her instagram https://www.instagram.com/jen.h.studio