Activism
activism
Creative Climate Action
Since 2017 Maeve has been working on projects that seek to build resilience in communities facing climate challenges, seed conversation about the rights of nature and environmental adaptation, and use storytelling to explore the emotion underpinning our inaction as a species. You can see more of these projects at Cracking Light.
Maeve set up and is lead artist for the Green Arts Department at Axis Ballymun and has designed programmes of work from 2020 - 2023 including peer-to-peer climate support, Community Vaults and COP án Tae, a series of industry conversations that happenedin tandem with COP 26 an COP 25.
Maeve was artivist-in-residence at Project Arts Centre through 2022; she is editor of “How Do We Start?” a limited run publication which looks at creative starting points for environmental engagement, she was mentor to artist Louis Haugh who was selected for the Rhizome Programme and established Roots for the Future, a radical thinking group that will design an assembly of artists for 2024.
Prior to this Maeve co-founded Change of Address collective which worked to connect artists and asylum seekers across a range of projections, networking and direct action.
The project was a co-operation project funded by the European Union's Creative Europe programme, running from October 2018 to March 2021, and led by Creative Carbon Scotland. In September 2019 I was chosen as the embedded Irish artist to work with Codema (Dublin’s energy agency) and Axis Arts Centre.
