The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings/ Libary Project, Dublin/ 2023

PhotoIreland presented The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings at the Library Project in Temple Bar, Dublin from the 3rd -26th March 2023. First presented to international audiences during PhotoIreland Festival 2022, the launch was marked by a performance by Suzanne Walsh, kindly loaned by the Arts Council of Ireland Collection and facilitated by the artist. The Sky Only Welcomes Those With Wings is a project consisting of a photobook and a photo – portrait series entitled Messengers (2022). Adopting a style of creative documentary from the vantage points of humans and birds alike, this photo-driven project explores topics of migration, border ecologies and ornithomancy, also known as the ancient practice of reading omens from the actions of birds.

Kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland