Fairland Collective is a group of artists, designers and practitioners who met through their work with Grizedale Arts in 2015, and who have since collaborated together in Ireland, the UK and Japan. With a wide range of skills to draw upon, they produce projects that recognise and prompt creativity in daily life. These projects often use cooking and meals to engage networks of people and communities, drawing on an archive of domestic skills and food processes gathered from previous and ongoing projects – from photography to anthropology, cheese mongering, fine art, baking and carpentry.

https://fairlandcollective.com/

Brenda Kearney (Ireland) has many varied interests, usually involving food. Drawing on previous experience as a fishmonger, cook and student of anthropology, she enjoys projects where food processes – from cultivation to consumption – act as a vehicle for discussion and an exchange of ideas. She also incorporates ethnographic research in her work, particularly in the areas of craft and domesticity.

Carlotta Novella (Italy) is an architect and artist part of London based practice public works. Through projects that challenge the idea of gathering, her work looks at how spaces and rituals of food can develop civic practices, promoting direct involvement and collective action in order to transform and reclaim contemporary public life.

Francesca Ulivi (Italy) is a Paris-based artist, with an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design. She has been working in education since 2011 in the United States, England and Italy. She is currently running a program of art workshops in her hometown’s high school to introduce students to a number of contemporary issues and innovations in the arts including but not limited to eco-sustainability, social inclusion, and local development.

Motoko Fujita (Ireland) obtained an MA in English Literature in Japan, worked in the field of publishing and has since forged a profession in photography. Her works include the publication The Shadow of James Joyce (Lilliput Press Ltd. 2011) and several years of involvement with adult education programs. Recently she has taken on roles in mediating cross cultural community projects.

Niamh Riordan (UK) is a Liverpool-based artist and writer with a background in cheese selling and maturation. She has an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art, and is currently helping to facilitate the Human Library, a programme of artist-led workshops and residencies in Bootle and Crosby Libraries, where she also hosts regular library-cooked lunches as part of FLC’s ongoing One Pot Project.