The Air We Share (2025) is a 30 minute creative film document commissioned by Galway City Council and Creative Ireland through the Creative Climate Action fund, with Galway Arts Centre as creative lead.
Filmed during artist residencies in 2024–2025, the documentary explores how art, science, and community engagement intersect to make the invisible air we breathe visible. Through multimodal practices – sound, light, textiles, and data – artists Leon Butler, Christopher Steenson, and ‘a place of their own’ (Sam Vardy and Paula McCloskey) work with residents of Westside, Galway’s decarbonising zone, alongside scientists and local partners.
The film follows their processes and collaborations, showing how artistic practice can respond to climate action, translate data into lived experience, and open up new forms of civic imagination.
Learn more: theairweshare.ie
This creative film document was filmed by Tom Flanagan.
Image – ‘The 9 Freedoms for the Air’, a place of their own (Sam Vardy & Paula McCloskey)
Photography – Tom Flanagan
