An Lúcht Siúil

Featured in exhibitions such as, 'Bafusia' in The Hugh Lane Gallery and Cairde arts Festival, The Model Sligo. Brought to life by The Písreog Project, with Axis Gallery and Theatre Ballymun and The National Museum of Ireland, to rest in The National Archives. launched by President Michael.D.Higgins.The Pisreóg Project is a Traveller-designed and project that has seen Traveller beoirs/ women in Ballymun collect and document our traditions, folklore, practices and customs within our community, and the nuances these hold customs locally. We commissioned Traveller artists to respond to the materials collected in their own art form, having the freedom to see, interpret and create in any way in which the collection and the people whose lives it arose from resonated with them. Over the course of several months, SMTCA engaged in a process in which the community shared their own stories, tales, insights, customs, using the wheel of the year as the framework for exploring the multiple narratives, understandings and interlacing of heritage, identity, expression and actions.These collected Pisreógs were collated into a a publication that included a variety of themes, a calendar and a glossary of Gammon Cant terms, which give a unique and rare insight into the cycle of the year from a Travellers perspective and is rich with connection to the land, our histories and age-old practices. The seven Traveller artists were commissioned to respond to an element within the collection to ensure a community-specific creative response and give further affirmations not only to the positive and creative currents within the community but also incorporates the vitality and importance of artistic expression.These works will be exhibited in Axis' Gallery in June 2023 and, following a process with the community and will form part of the collection of the National Museum of Ireland, as an example of community curatedwork.