Spotlight: Kathy -You’ve been framed - Kieran Beville
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Kathy Tiernan is a founding member and co-ordinator of ArtLimerick – a group of artists who have the desire and passion to build a community around Limerick Art and aim to promote emerging and established local artists and to showcase their work. There is such a wonderful spectrum of talent here in Limerick (music, literature, visual arts) and it makes me immensely proud of this city and county.
Kathy also has a picture-framing business which she runs from her studio/workshop in Grange, Kilmallock and this is the bread and butter aspect of her livelihood. Kathy says, “I often get funny looks when I tell people I’m an artist. Everything from that nod of the head to the raised eyebrow and always the question ‘but what’s your real job’? So much so, that I tell people I’m a picture framer. Nobody queries that job.”
February 27, 2021 9:00 am
“For us, there was no question as to how we would farm – farming organically was a given,” said Mimi Crawford who, along with her husband, Owen, farms 28ac in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary.
“We are interested in producing healthy soils; healthy pastures; healthy animals; and healthy foods. The only way to do this is without artificial inputs and working within the natural limits of the ecosystem,” said the Cloughjordan couple, who were selected as February Farming for Nature ambassadors.
“Owen’s grandfather originally owned the 28ac that we steward and we inherited the land from Owen’s mother in 2014. Neither of us really come from a conventional farming background,” Mimi said.