The exhibition functions as the launch of the Attunement in Multilingual Arts-Based Refugee Education (AMARE) research project, led by Prof. Erika Piazzoli and AERG fellow researchers Prof. Fiona Dalziel, Prof. Rachael Jacobs, Dr Eileen Neelan Keane, Dr Garret Scally, Dr Edmond Gubbins, Katheen Warner Yeates, Miriam Stewart and Ana Janelidze.

 

Featuring over 100 postcard-sized artworks by more than 50 illustrators from 28 countries, Migrations explores human migration through the poetic metaphor of birds in flight. Each work offers a personal and imaginative response to themes of movement, belonging, and hope. 

 

The collection is published in catalogue form by Otter-Barry Books, with a preface by illustrator Shaun Tan, who writes: “All migration is an act of imagination, a flight of the imagination.” 

 

An evolving and itinerant project, Migrations has been exhibited internationally in Bratislava, Seoul, Cape Town, Munich, and London. The Dublin exhibition at the Central Library, ILAC Centre is supported by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FAHSS) Benefactions Fund, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. 

 

The exhibition opens today to the general public until February 09, at Central Library, ILAC Centre, Dublin 1.

 

For more on the collection see also: https://childrensbooksireland.ie/our-recommendations/migrations-open-hearts-open-borders

AMARE team from left to right: Ana Janelidze, Garret Scally, Erika Piazzoli, Fiona Dalziel, Katheen Warner Yeates, Miriam Stewart, Edmond Gubbins.