Bíodh Orm Anocht: Drawing Workshop with Kiera O’Toole

Artist Kiera O’Toole will lead a participatory drawing workshop, in which participants will map the energies and atmospheres of Limerick city.

Through drawing in-situ, O’Toole’s practice involves using dérives – walks through city streets without foreplanning – to record the subtle energies (which she describes as spatialised emotions) of everyday public spaces. She then translates her pre-reflective, sensory encounters into topographical maps and charts that she describes as ‘affective cartographies’.

Join us at Ormston House on Saturday, 27 September 2025 at 2pm, followed by a walk to city centre sites. Materials will be provided.

Capacity is limited, so book here to avoid disappointment.

About Kiera O’Toole:

O’Toole is a research-based visual artist and lecturer at ATU Sligo. Her practice explores drawing as a method of registering the spatialised emotions of place, blending phenomenology and atmospheric theory. O’Toole exhibits internationally and publishes widely on contemporary drawing. She is a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland and the Drawing Research Network (UK), and she is a co-founder of Drawing deCentered. She currently lives and works in Sligo, Ireland.

 

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Kiera O'Toole Drawing Workshop. 27 September 2025, 2–4pm. Free tickets available here. Image credit: Kiera O’Toole, 'Sketch of Cartographies of Spatialised Feelings of Limerick City', charcoal, ink and acrylic paint on paper, 2025