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Fruiting Futures by Sarah Lou Kinneen for Cork Midsummer Festival

Fruiting Futures by Sarah Lou Kinneen for Cork Midsummer Festival

June 20 - June 22, 2025
8:30am-8pm
Cork Center for Architectural Education, Douglas Street
Fruiting Futures

Recipient of Cork Midsummer Festival’s Jane Anne Rothwell Award 2025, Sarah Lou Kinneen presents an immersive installation grown from waste, care, and connection developed during her graduate residency at the National Sculpture Factory. Audiences are invited to step inside a space shaped by renewal and possibility. As you move through walls of living fungal threads – grown from locally-sourced waste materials – experience a structure that is still becoming, still alive. This evolving, organic space imagines sustainability not as something distant, but as something intimate: a process of growth, collaboration, and deep-rooted connection with the natural world.

 

Sarah Lou Kinneen

Sarah Lou Kinneen is recipient of Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award. Each year, Sample-Studios partner with the National Sculpture Factory and Cork International Film Festival to present the Parallax Award initiative to support and promote early career stage film artists with the support of The Arts Council of Ireland. As part of this award, Kinneen will present her first solo exhibition at our gallery in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park, from 6 – 30 November 2025.  Kinneen’s interdisciplinary practice explores the meeting points of ecology and visual art.

Fruiting Futures

Recipient of Cork Midsummer Festival’s Jane Anne Rothwell Award 2025, Sarah Lou Kinneen presents an immersive installation grown from waste, care, and connection developed during her graduate residency at the National Sculpture Factory. Audiences are invited to step inside a space shaped by renewal and possibility. As you move through walls of living fungal threads – grown from locally-sourced waste materials – experience a structure that is still becoming, still alive. This evolving, organic space imagines sustainability not as something distant, but as something intimate: a process of growth, collaboration, and deep-rooted connection with the natural world.

 

Sarah Lou Kinneen

Sarah Lou Kinneen is recipient of Parallax Emerging Film Artist Award. Each year, Sample-Studios partner with the National Sculpture Factory and Cork International Film Festival to present the Parallax Award initiative to support and promote early career stage film artists with the support of The Arts Council of Ireland. As part of this award, Kinneen will present her first solo exhibition at our gallery in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgerald’s Park, from 6 – 30 November 2025.  Kinneen’s interdisciplinary practice explores the meeting points of ecology and visual art.