'Reading the Rural Landscape', an exhibition of drawings by architect Mark Price, is running at the Europa Gallery, 11 Chatham Street, Dublin 2, until September 7.

The exhibition features five projects supported by the Heritage Council's traditional farm buildings scheme grant scheme - in counties Cork, Donegal, Offaly and Waterford, as well as Connemara - run in partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Price, who is considered one of the leading architectural draughtspersons in Ireland, is a former lecturer in architectural drawing at UCD School of Architecture and Queens University, Belfast.

While surveying farm structures across Ireland that have benefitted from the traditional farm buildings grant scheme, Price worked to illustrate something of the relationship of these structures to the landscape.

The exhibition explores how farming practices and rural buildings have shaped and been shaped by the Irish landscape, creating deeply rooted patterns of settlement and enclosure which have venerable histories.

Price’s images and insights bring these historic relationships vividly to life.

The annual grant scheme for the conservation and repair of traditional farm buildings and related structures -such as walls, cobbled yard surfaces, walled orchards, dungsteads, millraces, gate pillars and gates - was honoured with a European Heritage /Europa Nostra award in the education, training and skills category in 2024.

It was also named one of just five Grand Prix winners across Europe.

Among the attendees at the preview of the exhibition was Katherine Duffy, from Treantagh, Co. Donegal, who is one of the farm owners.

The exhibition which was organised by the European Parliament liaison office in Ireland together with the Heritage Council, is open from Monday to Friday, from 9.30a.m. to 5.00p.m. and weekends from 12 noon to 6.00p.m.