THE Kiosk at the People’s Park will go back to nature this January as it goes green to promote Limerick as an environmentally friendly and ecologically rich city as part of a project by artist Mary Conroy.
Following on from the success of Carl Doran’s ‘Dogs Tales’ and Norma Lowney’s ‘Theatre Shop’, ‘Wildroutes’ will now see an emphasis put on “a connection to the natural world in an urban context”.
A participatory-based urban eco-art project, Conroy aims to encourage people to reform unused public space in the city. The artist believes we can do this by taking neglected corners of the city and turning them into something alive, beautiful and even useful.
“I’m very excited about been given the opportunity to work in this little piece of history in the beautiful People’s Park. I’m looking forward to spending time in the indoor/outdoors and creating something new through a collaborative process,” Mary enthused.
The Park Kiosk will become an exhibition space, an information point and a workshop where anybody is invited to come and visit to help build wildlife shelters that will be installed in the city to help increase biodiversity and make Limerick an even more nature friendly city. This beautiful small building will also house native plants, local information, imagery and a specially designed map to introduce people to the wide range of ecological habitats and Special Areas of Conservation that are unique to Limerick.
For more details log onto the Wildroutes project’s facebook page.
