Science Week Workshops: Forgotten Corners of A City 9 - 16 Nov 2025
For Science Week 2025, join artists Duffy Mooney Sheppard and Jane Groves. for an inspiring, hands-on workshop where you will explore the small corners and crevices of wild nature in your area.
Think of those little patches of earth by a streetlamp, cracks in old walls, or overgrown strips of grass. They might look messy or forgotten, but on closer inspection, these spaces can be rare safe havens for insects, animals and plants in our bustling urban locality. With an artist’s eye, we’ll explore the beauty in these small, wild spaces and see just how important they are for the city’s ecosystem. Through drawing, discovery and play, this workshop aims to ignite a passion and understanding for the everyday insects, animals and plants we live alongside in Dublin.

About Duffy Mooney Sheppard
Duffy is a visual artist, theatre maker and graduate of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Arts. She weaves curiosity, fantasy, and nature into her workshops and has worked extensively with The Ark and other cultural institutions.

About Jane Groves
Jane is a visual artist whose work is embedded in meaningful process-driven engagement and site-specific installation. Jane loves to connect people, places, and landscapes and specialises in working with young people, inspired by her own observations of nature and informed in part by many children’s lack of interaction with and vocabulary about the natural world. Jane delights in bringing her spark to very young children and their families, listening carefully and delighting in the creative response, encouraging passion, playfulness, and curiosity. Jane has worked extensively with children and communities through working with The Ark, Dublin City Council, Creativity In The Classroom, The Craft and Design Council, DLR, and many more.