Rounding up our project we decided to make our own online video as if we were making a pilot tv episode called ‘Planet Art’ a title that the children decided. We felt its a good record of our work together. … Continue reading
Having looked at the Playground project that Im involved in at VISUAL Carlow, I wanted to do a project with the children connecting to this, installation art and their new school thematic ‘Mini Beasts’. So we … Continue reading
The weekly ‘studio checkin ‘ is a two way thing now. Each week the children report on how their sculpture is coming along. They are working on it whenever they have some time to give it during the week. The … Continue reading
Back in the studio now we had a weekly ‘studio checkin ‘ and I was showing the children the progress of my steel sculpture for Maynooth University. I was discussing the challenges I was having with the engineering. This work is ongoing … Continue reading
Back in Ireland now and at the start of a new year, I decided to visit the children. The children had been collecting waste packaging for a few months now and I decided it would be a good time to go … Continue reading
I was visiting in Los Angeles where I had an exhibition and was on an artist residency so at 3.30 am from a distance I connected in with the class in St Colmans. The children were so excited about the … Continue reading
Useless objects. Form and function We started by doing our ‘Studio Checkin’ where I showed the class images of a sculpture I am currently working on for Maynooth University. There were lots of great questions about the materials and process of … Continue reading
After a few technical difficulties getting connected, playing around, uploading and writing on the white board to each other we got started. One of the great things about this project is how the class get to see inside an artists studio … Continue reading
I drove up from Dublin to visit St Colman’s school to meet with Helena and the class who were so welcoming and friendly. They had a lovely comfy chair waiting for me and the class sat on the carpeted floor around me … Continue reading