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.