Diane Magee Art

Practised by Burren farmers for thousands of years, it’s the seasonal movement of livestock to the Burren uplands in late October, left to graze over rocky pastures for the winter months. Counterintuitively, despite the tough climate and no shelter, the limestone winter pastures retain heat, removing the need to bring cattle indoors. Winterage is an ancient farming practice and annual celebration being celebrated again in this show.

This Winterage isn’t reality but the artist’s own multiverse, darker than her previous work, more of a dreamscape – like residual images we sometimes carry into real life in the spilt second of waking.