Billie ireland
Charcoal paper sculpture
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Billie Ireland is an artist, craftsperson, and teacher based in Wales, UK. She creates research-driven, site-responsive land art, sculpture, paperworks, and film.
Her practice explores the cultural legacy of charcoal and pyrolysis as heritage craft processes. Central to her work is biochar—a contemporary form of charcoal made from biomass or organic waste—used across regenerative agriculture, art, greenhouse gas removal, archaeology, and environmental conservation.
Informed by carbon’s complex legacy of power, extraction, and exploitation, Billie seeks to reconnect with this elemental material through sacred ecology and a deep sense of place.
Themes of sacrifice, fragility, and resilience run through her delicately carbonised paper sculptures, revealing intersections between care, creation, and connection. Her work makes visible the cycles of unseen labour and energy at the heart of both craft and life, capturing the ephemeral nature of transformation.
Billie is the first artist-craftsperson to create sculpture using a Dartmoor Dragon Retort and has received a grant from CO₂RE, the UK’s national research hub for Greenhouse Gas Removal.
Her current research with co2re aims to reframe carbon—not as a pollutant, but as a sacred, life-sustaining element—opening space for broader dialogue between climate, craft, and culture.
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