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The Discovery Hub welcomes this Finnish/Irish creative liaison celebrating natural materials and the landscape as part of Creative Peninsula 2024.
Following on from a British Council funded exchange between textile artist, Ruth Osbourne and painter Pirjo Seddiki and an Arts Council NI supported project, Something Old: Something New by Jane McCann and Sirpa Morsky, this exhibition celebrates the merging of these projects in an ongoing collaborative interchange.
Something Old: Something New promotes design for linen as one of the most sustainable natural fibres with links to both Northern Irish and Finnish heritage. Alongside flax, the need for a source of new cellosic fibre to satisfy growing global consumption, led to Sirpa and Jane's experimentation with Kuura (wood) fibre.
Kuovi/Curlew includes a body of work based on Ruth Osbourne's Nature Printing techniques and Pirjo Seddiki's translation of her drawings and paintings, often of birds, into digital print. The redlisted curlew/kuovi, the largest European wading bird, forms another link between Northern Ireland and Finland.
The results of these collaborations can be seen in a capsule garment collection by Sirpa Morsky and Jane McCann.
