A Talisman for Us 7.8 x 4.5 x 1cm Natural colour on paper 2025  ‘A Talisman for Us’ is one of many belonging to a large installation called ‘A Talisman for Now’. Holding principles of the circular economy, the objects are made with wild, native, local and repurposed materials. This work attends to our more than human world and thinks about care, reciprocity, tenderness Joanna Kidney’s practice explores what it means to belong to the earth in these times. Throughout an expansion of drawing into paint and space, making is central. She has exhibited in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and has been awarded a Cooper Foundation Grant (USA) and Arts Council of Ireland funding