ARRIVAL: Three Approaches to the Historic Designed Landscape of Ballindoon House

ARRIVAL: Three Approaches to the Historic Designed Landscape of Ballindoon House
ARRIVAL is an artist residency exploring the historic designed landscape of Ballindoon House and its surrounding estate through walking, observation, visual art, poetic prose, sound and mapping.

The project includes a public workshop at Ballindoon House on 20th June, and an exhibition at Edmondstown House as part of the Ballaghaderreen Arts Festival on 2nd August 2026.

A specially curated online version of the exhibition will launch on 15th August as part of National Heritage Week.

ARRIVAL:

Situated on the shores of Lough Arrow, Ballindoon House dates from the 1830s and forms part of a layered heritage landscape shaped primarily through nineteenth-century estate design, shoreline access, avenues, parkland, and carefully composed relationships between architecture and water.

While the estate also contains traces of earlier settlement, including a medieval abbey and Iron Age ringfort, ARRIVAL focuses on the designed landscape associated with Ballindoon House and the experience of approach, encounter and arrival within the estate.

Through slow, attentive walking, ARRIVAL traces three distinct routes toward the house: a sheltered northern avenue framed by trees; a southern shoreline path exposed to weather and water; and a worn path leading from the boathouse, where a strong line of sight draws water and dwelling into relation.

Developed through site-responsive research and creative practice, the residency will generate a series of artworks that respond directly to Ballindoon as a living heritage landscape.

Funded by (NIAH) the National Built Heritage Service and the Ballaghaderreen Arts Festival.