Sweat Oratory
Kinsale Art Festival
Kinsale, Ireland

Across out of the way places in Ireland are small overgrown huts that look like miniature tombs. They are constructed of stone with small entrances and covered with sods and were used by farmers as a simple sweat house. Sweat Oratory brings this technique back and through the process encourages people to have a relationship with the sea by needing to cool off.

The design of the installation is based on The Gallarus Oratory, an early Christian church built in 800AD sited on the west coast of Ireland, combining ancient religious architecture and an ancient secular experience.