In Search of Hy-Brasil, an exhibition reflecting fieldwork from Ireland’s offshore islands, has begun a nationwide tour on the Aran island of Inis Meáin.

As previously reported by Afloat, the exhibition first appeared in the Irish pavilion at last year’s Venice Biennale and is curated by a team of five architects,Elizabeth Hatz, Peter Cody, Mary Laheen, Peter Carroll and Joseph Mackey.

It responded to the theme “The Laboratory of the Future – selected by curator of the Biennale Architettura 2023, Lesley Lokko.

Dutch interior designers Hanneke Frenkel’s sea mats and sacks created from her beachcombing on Turbot island west of Clifden formed part of the exhibition.

An abstraction of Sceilg Mhichíl (Skellig Michael) off the Kerry coast made from Galway sheep’s wool, and results of Mayo’s Clare Island Survey were also selected.

The curators have studied the island landscapes of Inis Meáin, UNESCO World Heritage site Sceilg Mhicíl (Skellig Michael) and Cliara (Clare Island) through drawing, survey, film, sound, model, mapping, and story.

The installation aims to offer an immersive experience that draws connections between the social fabric, cultural landscape and ecology of these islands, shifting between the global and the local, the territorial and the intimate.

The exhibition tour is supported by the Arts Council, and opened on Inis Meáín late last week as part of “Island Conversations” at Coláiste Naomh Eoin Secondary School.

It moves from Inis Meáín to the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan, Co Meath from June 22nd to August 31st, and at the Architecture at the Edge festival in Galway from September 20th to October 8th.

RTE News has more on the story here