BASIA IRLAND: REPOSITORIES

Portable Sculptures for Waterway Journeys

2023

Book Details

Preface & main text: Patricia Watts, founder of ecoartspace

Foreword: Sandra Postel, Director of the Global Water Policy Project & 2021 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

Design: Graeme Walker, UK

Publisher: ecoartspace

ISBN: 9798218112820

Format: hardcover

Pages: 152

Illustrations: color

Dimensions: 9" x 6.3" (22.9cm x 16cm)

For over twenty years, Basia Irland has been working with scientists, students, activists and Tribal members along waterways across the US and Canada. With her ongoing art practice to create a deep and meaningful engagement with living bodies of water, the construction of Repositories emerged as a methodology for archiving documentation of research and physical engagements during Irland's riparian journeys. Repositories, the book, documents the construction of the artists' portable sculptures and the objects within which reveal rich stories of rivers through the collection of water data, watershed maps, artworks, plants, and seeds.

Of Pelicans and Palapas (closed). 1999.

Backpacking into the Raga of the River. 1995.

Travelling Kit in Search of a Tinaja worn by Paula Wilson near Carrizozo, New Mexico. 2022.

Photo by Mike Lagg.

Basia Irland: Repositories is available to order from ecoartspace publications.

Life Vest (back). 2002. Photo by Margot Geist.