Miranda Whall

Miranda Whall is an artist, BA Creative Arts scheme leader, lecturer in Fine Art and co- director of the Centre for Material Thinking (CMT) at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Whall’s current research and practice interests reside in multispecies studies, where she explores the relationship between human and non- human through interdisciplinary practices such as performance, film, gentle activism and installation. Whall is currently working on a series of projects under the umbrella title Co-becoming; multispecies mingling and the art of attentiveness. This includes two current NERC funded pan – faculty interdisciplinary projects Planetary Multispecies Politics in Action; When Earth Speaks and Making the Invisible Visible: Instrumenting and Interpreting an Upland Landscape for Climate Change Resilience; Soil Voices and an Arts Council England funded Live Arts Development Agency (LADA) project Live Art Rural UK; Soil Matters. Whall is also currently developing a project titled Co- becoming Stone for The Living Archives, The Anatomy of Looking Back, in the 13th Century Convitto Palmieri, Lecce, Italy, funded by the Museo Castromediano and Poli Biblio – Museali della Regione Puglia.

Art collection

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Origins

Set up in 1992, The Carlow Art Collection is a voluntary community initiative that has been surrounded by goodwill and generosity from the people of Carlow. It has expanded into a diverse collection of work with artists from around the world. CAC became a fully registered charity in 2018. The home of our art collection is in Carlow College. The Carlow Art Collection is free to view in the front halls of Carlow College, Monday to Friday, and in the garden every day of the year.

Today

The art works in the permanent collection include painting, print, drawing, sculpture, sound, photography, live art, film and activism, with more to come. The collection and CAC projects reflect a broad range of art by over thirty artists, many of whom visited, exhibited, engaged with or lived in the area.

Our Goal

The CAC is deeply indebted to the artists who contribute to the collection, to its board members past and present, and to the many people and organisations that support it technically and financially. The Carlow Art Collection will continue to expand on the ideas of what art is and what an art collection can be, and become.