David Habets and Eva Posas, working as their family collective Mbuchi, present ‘Roaring Winds Radio Dublin Set’ (2026), a silkscreened kite and a portable emergency radio. Before ships navigated by chart and compass, the wind carried life between continents: spores, pollen, and other forms of life crossed the open water. This project traces aerial transmission from lichen to language, broadcast to breath, drawing on the history of radio and the kite-assisted experiments of Guglielmo Marconi at Crookhaven — not far from Glenkeen Garden — site of some of the earliest transatlantic wireless transmissions. ‘Roaring Winds Radio’ is the first instalment of an ongoing series imagining the invisible space made of air moving between worlds and lungs.

Sonya Schönberger’s photographic triptych ‘Skull and Heart’ (2024) combines two close-up studies of stones with a central self-portrait. The skull- and heart-shaped stones appear threaded with lava-like structures, conveying a frozen movement, primal and grounded. The self-portrait depicts the artist in a staged, ritualistic setting. Perhaps lost, perhaps hiding. Oscillating between the natural and the artificial, the work connects body and landscape, raising questions on possession, appropriation, and cultural transformation.

The collective Forerunner arrived at Glenkeen Garden during a period of deliberate slowing-down — stepping outside the usual pressures of deadline and outcome to find what a practice looks like when given room to breathe. The works that emerged from this time begin from unexpected places: questions about where art ends up once it leaves the studio, and what forms might hold that uncertainty. Their contribution to ‘Gathering Winds’ carries the spores of thinking-in-progress, from galvanised air-conditioning ducts to a stained-glass hand dryer.

Glenkeen Garden is a masterwork of dynamic composition. Over 20 years, it has been designed, cared for, and constantly revitalised. While general sketches set the garden’s tones, stages, and scenes, flora and fauna take over and constantly form and re-form the land from within the pre-given frame. Carefully crafted by photographer, psychologist, and philanthropist Ulrike Crespo (1950—2019) along with her partner Michael Satke (1943—2024), this garden, nestled on the shores of Roaringwater Bay in West Cork, has welcomed artists since 2021 for an artist-in-residence programme, facilitated by the Crespo Foundation.

Under the title ‘ArtNature/NatureArt’, the garden has been a temporary home for artists working across various media, immersing themselves in this distinctive environment and the unique and welcoming social tapestry of West Cork. A specific emphasis is placed on scientific collaboration, facilitated in cooperation with the Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork and Frankfurt’s Senckenberg Research Institute. ‘The Glenkeen Variations’ is an exhibition and event series focused on the artists’ return to Ireland. Across events at the Goethe-Institut in Dublin and at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre in Skibbereen the former residents present their work to a broader audience and continue their discussions with research and community partners.