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Mapping Climate Change: The Knitting Map & The Tempestry Project
30 Oct 2025
Horgan's Quay 1, Waterfront Square, Cork City. T23 PPT8
Exhibition Open 4 Nov - 6 Dec
Opening Times:
Tue, Wed, Fri 12 – 4pm
Thur 4 – 7pm
Sat 10am – 4pm
Closed Sun / Mon
Head of Theatre, Prof. Jools Gilson is currently researching Arts & Sustainability, especially the possibility of an Arts & Sustainability festival for Cork City (funded by Research Ireland). This research bookends the
Mapping Climate Change exhibition which unites for the first time two innovative textile art projects that give visual and tangible presence to our warming world at a time of environmental precarity.
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 experiences 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. This large-scale textile installation was made collaboratively with 2000 older, working-class women from Cork’s North side and knitted every day for a year. Weather station data was programmed to generate yarn colour and movement to generate complexity of stitch.
This exhibition is supported by Research Ireland and UCC (UCC Creative, Sustainability Institute, Office of Climate & Sustainability, Arts & Culture Office, CACSSS Research Fund & Dept of Theatre) and gratefully acknowledges sponsorship from Bam Ireland and Clarendon Properties.
For more on this story contact:
Contact sinead.gallagher@ucc.ie