Anna Macleod and Gerry Bohan

Anna Macleod and Gerry Bohan will be in conversation with Mary Conlon to talk about their ongoing creative collaboration in the context of the exhibition Tír Breac / Speckled Land at The Dock. Join us on Saturday 11 April at 11am. 

Anna Macleod is a Scottish-Irish visual artist, researcher, and educator based in the Northwest of Ireland. Her work mediates complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical, and cultural understandings of land and water through a variety of visual art media. She has been awarded the International Atlantic Artist Residency Exchange in Newfoundland with CRUX and Artlink in 2026.

Gerry Bohan is a traditional farmer and storyteller and farms a 40-acre farm in the townland of Aughadrumcarn near Mohill, Co. Leitrim. In 2023, Gerry published his first book, The Clainings Tree and Other Stories from the Heart of Leitrim, a collection of eight short stories, four of which were commissioned by Anna Macleod as part of a year-long collaboration throughout 2021, exploring time and heritage based farming practices in the Celtic calendar.