sapling is an exhibition of new work by artist 1iing heaney in the Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow.

Following a year-long residency in the Courthouse Arts Centre, sapling presents on-going work focusing on the local oak forest, Tomnafinnoge Woods.

A product of current conservation, Tomnafinnoge Woods remains as one of the last mature ancient oak forests in Ireland. Using the emerging technology of 3D object scanning and CGI film, sapling imagines a parallel growth of these Woods, evolving through digital preservation.

Spanning multiple screens, the CGI film fragments, disperses, and imagines a digital life that organisms such as trees may evolve into. sapling details what data is taken and what is left behind when world-building new digital spaces. This exhibition encourages viewers to consider the parallel lives that organic lifeforms take on when digitised.

sapling is the first presentation with the Courthouse Arts Centre of ongoing research into digital preservation of organic, cultural, folk, and historic objects.

1iing heaney is a digital artist from Co. Wicklow. She works with 3D animation and uses it to explore the future of nature in digital space. Recent exhibitions include in suspension, Ballina Arts Centre, Co.Mayo (2022), Caibleadh, online with SFI and iCRAG (2021), cciirrccaaddiiaann, ZAZ10TS, Times Square, New York (2020), and Hyper-, Pallas Projects/Studios, Co. Dublin (2019).  Her work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Wicklow Arts Office, and Fingal Arts Office. She is currently artist in residence at the Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow.

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sapling opens on Saturday, January 21st at 2-5pm, and will run until February 4th.

Viewing Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 4pm

This exhibition is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Courthouse Arts Centre, and the Wicklow Arts Office, with special thanks to 3D Printing Ireland.