The Road to Home | In Places Far Away
February 14, 2025
Newtown Castle, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughen, Co. Clare, Ireland
The Road to Home | In Places Far Away features three international artists who explore the connection between landscape, memory and identity. Through photography, mixed media and print they examine how familiar and unfamiliar places shape who we are and our sense of belonging. The artists met in the Burren, on the West Coast of Ireland, where they are reflecting on the powerful link between place and personal history. Their work invites us to think about how landscapes - whether close to home or far away - become woven into our own stories.
Exhibiting artists:
Marta Baptisa
Mia Clayton
Julie Harrison Eastwood
Messy?, 2025
Lustre photographic prints (4), various sizes, Shot on Hasselblad 500c | 120 Ilford HP5+
Scanned Polaroid Negatives (4), 3.1x3.1 in, printed on archival paper
Mia is an emerging photographic artist with a practice centred on mirroring felt emotion with the natural environment through analogue film techniques. Mia’s photographs use the natural world as a vessel for storytelling, with themes of nostalgia, intergenerational connections and time. To the artist, the landscape transcends the physical space, it holds stories and weight.
This series is an ongoing collection of photographs taken along the West Coast of Ireland, the abstracted imagery capturing fleeting feelings of isolation and movement. The Polaroid negatives are abstracted depictions of rock formations across the mountains in the Burren, while the medium format film images evoke a sense of timelessness and nostalgia, drawing on the fluid continuity and wildness of the Irish landscape and Atlantic Ocean.
