PROJECTS WITH PRIMARY SCHOOLS / CHILDREN

Elemental: January - March 2019 (and coming to VISUAL in September 2019)
With work by artists Caoimhe Kilfeather, Karl Burke, Siobhan McGibbon, teacher and trained artist Anne Bradley, and students from Dromore NS, Bantry.
In partnership with Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen.

An exhibition of contemporary sculpture, especially for children, with work by artists Caoimhe Kilfeather and Karl Burke, and creative response space designed and created by Anne Bradley; at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. Also including a collaborative commission of work by artist Siobhan McGibbon working with a group of children from Dromore National School in Bantry.

Human Being and Human Becoming: April - October 2018
With artist Siobhan McGibbon, third class children from Scoil Chroí Íosa, Galway; and the Art & Philosophy programme with Aislinn O'Donnell and Katy Fitzpatrick, and students from Claddagh NS, Galway.
In partnership with with Galway Arts Centre and Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

Human Being and Human Becoming was a a collaborative commission with artist Siobhan McGibbon and third class children from Scoil Chroí Íosa, exploring imaginative future possibilities for the human body, in partnership with with Galway Arts Centre and Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

THE STUDIO THAT HAS NO ROOF: February 2016 - June 2017
With architects zero-degree machine, artist Atsushi Kaga, horticulturalist Niall Maxwell and a workshop programme with Stephen Brandes, Dragana Jurisic, Elaine Leader, Aideen Barry, Amanda Coogan, Beth O'Halloran, Eamon O'Kane, composer Slavek Kwi and designers Superfolk
Bracken ETNS, Balbriggan Co Dublin

The studio that has no roof (February 2016 - June 2017) is an integrated garden, artwork and workshop programme commission; at Bracken Educate Together National School, Balbriggan, county Dublin. Working with architects zero-degree machine, and gardener Niall Maxwell; the project involved the creation of an outdoor space designed to support social and creative activity with the school children.

Still image by Dragana Jurisic 

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Animation made in workshop with artist Aideen Barry,
THE STUDIO THAT HAS NO ROOF: May 2017
Bracken ETNS, Balbriggan Co Dublin

In Aideen Barry's workshops she invited participating children to make individual drawing animations and a collaborative stop-motion animation. For her drawing animation workshop she showed the students some of her animations including a work titled Levitating where she appeared to be hovering above the surface of the ground as she went about her day.

Ships Passing In The Night: September 2016 - January 2017
With artist James Ó hAodha for Dublin City Council’s Dublin’s Culture Connects
Sandymount Dodder Sea Scouts, and children from the Dublin Sikh Community

Ships Passing In The Night is a community engagement project led by artist James Ó hAodha. Over three months, James has spent time getting to know two community groups in the Sandymount/Ringsend area; children from the Sandymount Dodder Sea Scouts, and from the Dublin Sikh Community - who have their temple in Sandymount.

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PROJECTS WITH SECONDARY SCHOOLS / YOUNG PEOPLE

The Art of Choice: October - December 2018
Facilitated by curator Cleo Fagan (Superprojects); a Dun Laoghaire Rathdown arts office project
Project included work by artists Neil Carroll, Dragana Jurisic, Hannah Fitz, Christopher Mahon, Mark Joyce, Niamh McCann, Mary Fitzgerald, Atsushi Kaga, Brian Fay, Emma Roche, Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Laura Fitzgerald, Bassam Al Sabah, Marcel Vidal and Joanne Reid.
RHA Gallery, The Hugh Lane Gallery, Project Arts Centre, Kerlin Gallery, Motherstankstation, Green on Red Gallery, The Oonagh Young Gallery, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, The Irish Museum of Modern Art (studios); Dublin

The Art of Choice is a Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office project, funded by Creative Ireland. The project was initially proposed by the Grainstore, dlr's youth arts facility, and has been developed and co-ordinated in conjunction with Superprojects curator Cleo Fagan, who has been facilitating a group of young people (age 16-25 years) to research and select a contemporary artwork(s) to add to the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown municipal art collection.

Everything is in Everything: March - November 2017
With artists Clodagh Emoe and Jenny Brady; in partnership with Fingal Arts Office
Hartstown Community School, Dublin 15

Everything is in Everything (March - September 2017) is a collaborative commission with artists Clodagh Emoe, Jenny Brady and 4th year students at Hartstown Community School, in partnership with Fingal Arts Office.

Waves: March - May 2016
In partnership with Fingal Arts Office, with artists Clodagh Emoe, Sean Lynch, Ruth Lyons, Eoghan Ryan, writer Sue Rainsford and designers Distinctive Repetition
Hartstown Community School, Dublin 15; Fingal Community College, Swords, co Dublin.

This video documents Waves - an art education programme that connected young people, contemporary art and the political. * Please play film at full 1080 HD * Waves has seen Irish artists Clodagh Emoe, Sean Lynch, Ruth Lyons and Eoghan Ryan devise a series of compelling workshops for second level students in response to the rich context of the 1916 centenary.