Speaker: Emma Gilleece, Architectural Historian

Booking: Eventbrite

Join Emma Gilleece for her presentation ‘Form, Function and Footwear: State Ambition and the Industrial Modernism of Kilkenny’ on 25/4/26, to hear her incisive responses to artist Pauline O’Connell’s project From Hide to Heel, a socially engaged public art film project that explores and celebrates the intertwined industrial, agricultural, and craft histories through the story of a single, everyday object – the shoe. 

Emma Gilleece is a building conservationist and architectural historian.  She created the series 100 Buildings on RTÉ Culture, which explores early–mid twentieth-century structures in Ireland.  The series has also been commissioned by New Island Books to be developed into a book, due to be published in 2027.

Padmore & Barnes is fully wheelchair accessible via the front door. If anyone has any further access needs for this event, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Contact email:  fromhidetoheel@gmail.com for more information.