Gallery: Art First, London. 2011. Not far from the town of Macroom in Co. Cork, there is an area that contains the remains of an alluvial oak forest which was formed in the basin of the River Lee at the end of the last Ice Age. It is called the Gearagh – an old Irish name for a wooded river. This unique area was formed where the river valley flattened out and the Lee broke into an intricate network of streams and narrow channels weaving its way among a multitude of small wooded islands… [read more]