In September 2025, we launched Emily McFarland’s solo exhibition, Pollanroe Burn, an exhibition that unfolds through a series of new films and archival fragments, forming part of Emily’s ongoing long-term research into the shifting ecology of the Sperrin Mountains of West Tyrone, in the North of Ireland, in the shadow of proposed major industrial-scale gold extraction. As part of the exhibition, Emily has put together a reading list that details key readings across her research, spanning Irish folklore, watery thoughts and ecological studies. See a list of readings below, many of which are also available to read at Void Art Centre until Saturday 13 December 2025:
- Fieldwork for future ecologies: radical practice for art and art-based research, by Crone, B., Nightingale, S. and Stanton, P
- 3 Stories from the Mid-Tyrone Gaeltacht: three stories from Professor Éamonn Ó Tuathail’s Collection of Folklore in Irish, with a revised edition, Ó Tuathail, É. (collected in) Mac Gabhann, P
- Room for the river: The Foyle river catchment landscape: connecting people, place and nature, by Campbell, L.
- Irish Rivers, de Buitléar, É.
- Amazon in flux: territory, tensions and labour, by Stefano, D., Garvey, B. & Virginio, F.
- Thinking with Water, by Chen, C., MacLeod, J. & Neimanis, A.
- The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, by Gómez-Barris, M.
- The Omagh Gold Mine: A Report on the Controversy, by Moore, N.
