Deirdre O’Mahony

“The thing that we can do as artists is to create public space so that the complex reality that farmers are dealing with can be heard and seen.”

Deirdre O’Mahony’s intensively researched collaborative projects, which can encompass film, installation, performance, feasts, pedagogical platforms and more, engage with the politics of land and landscape, often through the lens of food and farming. Now, she thinks she’s found a way to make the EU’s policymakers listen to what farmers are saying about their experience of climate change.