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MAPPING CLIMATE CHANGE - Free Exhibition
Join us in the magnificent spaces of 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. 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 the 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. 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.
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
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).
FREE EXHIBITION: 4th Nov – 6th Dec 2025
Opening Times:
- Tue, Wed, Fri 12 – 4pm
- Thur 4 – 7pm
- Sat 10am – 4pm
- Closed Sun / Mon
This exhibition is produced by UCC and generously supported by Research Ireland, Bam Ireland and Clarendon Properties.
For more on this story contact:
sinead.gallagher@ucc.ie