Irish Surruralism
On the Work of Orla Barry
Orla Barry’s artistic work exists in various fields: the visual arts, agriculture and writing. The blurred boundaries of these fields run between professional work and artistic creation, the natural and the technological, the urban and the rural, the human and the non-human, the animate and the inanimate. The artist describes herself as ‘both visual artist and shepherd’. Her third, equally important role, derived from both these experiences, is that of a storyteller. Orla Barry’s hybrid (…)
