Axis Green Arts
Axis Green Arts Department
Maeve was invited to create the first Green Arts Department in the country at Axis:Ballymun in 2020 and has been working with the brilliant team in Ballymun on a variety of projects since including Abi Ighodaro who recently joined as an embedded artist. Maeve offers artist support in one on one sessions and oversees ‘Green Circles’ which offer peer support and community and leads on creative projects and commissions.
Throughout 2021 and 2022 Maeve Stone worked on a project called The Community Vault. The documentary film at the heart of the work was filmed by Alex Gill and exhibited at Axis February 1st - March 17th 2022.
The Community Vault was created through a series of processes including an 8 week direct engagement with a core group of participants two Elders, two middle age people and two students; five days of interviews across the wider Ballymun Community and the design of an exhibition based on information gathered through those interviews, culminating in an interactive exhibition which ran from 1st February to 17 March.
Core Programme
15th Oct - Introductions and first connections with the Vault
22nd Oct - Anthotype printing with Kasia Kaminska
Nov 5th - The New Biodiversity Plan for Ballymun discussed with a local expert, examining old maps and making new ones.
Nov 12th - Creating your own Rain Garden with Kaethe Burt O'Dea
Nov 19th - Planning for what you'd like to include in the vault. Deciding what memory, place or idea is worth capturing for the archive.
Nov 26th - Making the Vault filming and project review.
December 7th - 9th Additional Filming days
Filming across the community included specific focus on community organisations and leaders.
Collaboration
with Dublin Fringe Festival
Garden Of Shadows
Panel Discussion hosted by Botanical Gardens 2023
Remnant Ecology
Panel Discussion at Botanical Gardens 2022
L-R Dia Mariam, Rosie O’Reilly, Maeve Stone, Jony Easterby and Gerry Wardell
As part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 Maeve Stone hosted a panel discussion as part of Welsh Artist Jony Easterby’s Exhibition REMNANT ECOLOGIES. The panel took the topic of energy and environment as the theme and was sponsored by the Welsh Government, Supported by Dublin Fringe, the OPW and hosted by Botanical Gardens Dublin.
Seven artists were commissioned to respond to the work of Jony Easterby and the work was presented at an event at Axis.
Fringe Award
In partnership with Dublin Fringe, the Axis Green Arts Award is a fantastic opportunity for environmentally conscious makers and producers. The award includes a cash prize of €1000 as well as a targeted package of supports for the company. Selected by axis: Ballymun via application process.
COPán TAE are lunchtime talks that the Green Arts Department have commissioned and hosted for two years to coincide with COP meetings in 2022 and 2023.
