About the exhibition

Join us in the magnificent spaces of the Horgan’s Quay 19th century CIÉ warehouse for this first exhibition in its post-industrial space. 

Mapping Climate Change unites for the first time two innovative textile art projects from the US and Ireland that give visual and tangible presence to our warming world at a crucial moment of environmental precarity. Like the natural world and our place in it, textiles can be both vulnerable and resilient. By translating temperature, precipitation, humidity or windspeed data into stitch and colour, these vibrant works potently and poignantly reveal the centrality of weather to identity and our experience of place. 

This exhibition also celebrates the 20th anniversary of The Knitting Map, commissioned in 2005 as one of the flagship projects of Cork’s year as European Capital of Culture. Ambitious and visionary, this large-scale textile installation was made collaboratively with more than 2000 older, working-class women from Cork City and knitted every day for a year. Weather station data was programmed to generate yarn colour and movement to generate complexity of stitch.  

The exhibition is open to all and free.

Getting to Horgan's Quay 1 / Eircode: T23 PPT8 

5 min walk from Cork City Bus Station / Kent Railway Station and opposite the Dean Hotel. Enter through main reception close to the river. Horgan’s Quay Reception: 021 203 8380  

Further info:

sinead.gallagher@ucc.ie  

Mapping Climate Change  was curated by Deborah Barkun and toured the US from 2021 - 24 (Berman Museum of Art, Pennsylvania 2021; Kohler Gallery, Wisconsin 2023; The Art Museum, West Virginia 2024). This exhibition is produced by UCC and generously supported by Research Ireland, Bam Ireland and Clarendon Properties. 

Dates

• 4 November to 6 December 2025

Opening Times

Location

Address: 1 Horgan's Quay, Cork City, T23 PPT8

Audience

All welcome!