Join us for a last hurrah on the closing weekend! The Upper Gallery will become a hive of creativity with workshops and drawing spaces, free and open to all!
Workshops:
Saturday 21 September 11–1pm: Free, Family Friendly workshop, open to all! 2pm– 4pm: Follow Your Nose in-gallery workshop with Cork Migrant Centre.
Sunday 22 September 11am–1pm & 2pm–4pm: Free, Family Friendly workshops, open to all!
If you can’t make one of the workshop times fear not! The Upper Gallery will have drawing stations with materials accessible all weekend just pop in!
Light and Shade: Drawing Activity
Navigate through our collection of sculptures and Canova casts, and take time to consider how light and shade are at play in the space with these free activities! Click on the images below to download them.
Is cuma más cainteoir líofa thú, nó b’fhéidir go bhfuil deis uait do chuid scileanna a chleachtadh agus a fheabhsú. Tá go leor gníomhaíochtaí as Gaeilge ar fáil go forleathan ar na suíomhanna gréasáin ‘Learn & Explore’.
Try out our activities ‘as Gaeilge’!
Whether you are a fluent Irish speaker or want to practice your skills, there are activities ‘as Gaeilge’ available on the Learn & Explore section of our website!
Check out projects that our TY work experience students have made during their time with us! Each project has a unique take on past/ current exhibitions in the Gallery. Why not try out some of the activities they have created!’
Visual Language is a crucial form of communication. Images are powerful tools for communicating messages. People need skills to interpret these messages and have thoughtful responses. The ability to decode the language of images helps us realise that a single image may have multiple meanings. Fluency in visual language enriches our understanding of Art and the world. It influences our creativity, empathy and critical thinking.
The video and downloadable PDF suggest ways of breaking the codes of visual language helping us to understand, write and talk about artworks. A handy method called 'Visual Thinking Strategy' using three questions helps us to analyse artwork.
Click below to view the video presentation
Artwork in the video: CAG. 1828 Andrew Boyle, Millwall, 1998 CAG. 2067 Debbie Godsell, Lady, 2002 CAG. 1734 Anthony Haughey, Lie of the Land CAG. 1696 Anne Madden, Jardin de Nuit, 1932 CAG. 81 John Lavery, The Red Rose, 1923
Have you ever wondered what a Curator does? Curators have many roles in the Crawford Art Gallery working with colleagues in areas such as education, research, conservation, design and marketing. They continually develop interesting ways in which to engage the public with artworks through exhibitions, publications or events.
Check out our exhibition case study which interviews Anne Boddaert, one of the gallery Curators. Anne speaks about curating the exhibition ‘Seen, Not Heard’ (28th June – 28th October 2019). We asked Anne about what needs to be considered when borrowing work from another collection or artist and hanging the work. We also chat about the experimental playspace take-over of the upper gallery, following the phenomenal response from the public.
BE A CURATOR!
We invite you to curate your own online exhibition!
Click on this link, save a copy of the online gallery template.
Explore the Crawford Art Gallery Collection, picking a theme of your choice. Right-click to download and save the images you choose to upload to the slides on your template.
Try experimenting with the content of the artwork. Can you communicate a different message to your audience by juxtaposing two images of different meaning?
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Drawing Faces
In this timelapse video Avril O’Brien demonstrates techniques for drawing a face, like comparing distances, using one feature to measure others, breaking down areas into simple shapes.
Click on the video below to view a timelapse of the process
Exploring Influences / A View from a Window
Develop your own artwork that says something about where you are - your place
To kick-start this project Avril looked at the gallery collection for inspiration and selected four paintings that explore views from a window. Each of the paintings have an individual mood, style and composition, that suggest different emotions and meanings.
A.M. O' Hare, Houses in Cork, with View of Shandon, 20th century.
Avril sketched the composition of one of the paintings as a starting point and then used collage to create something new. Avril’s collage used scraps of old maps for clouds in the sky, maybe because she really misses travelling, this gives her artwork an individual meaning.
You can watch Avril at work on this short time-lapse video
Figure Drawing
Click on the video below to view a timelapse of the process
We share tips and tricks for drawing a figure. Get the low down on ways of finding proportion. Stuck for art materials? Raid the kitchen cupboards for materials to create expressive mark-making.
Avril O’Brien, Artist and teen tutor, demonstrates with a portrait from the gallery in this short video and handy downloadable PDF.
This resource has been designed as an introduction to portraiture for school groups. Primary and post-primary teachers can use it as a starting point for lesson plans. It will help to develop and consolidate pupils' visual literacy and critical thinking skills, fostering a curiosity in self-representation and identity.
Resource Pack Designed by art teacher Liz Morrissey, this pack presents the 12 key artworks from the collection, with worksheets, visuals and artist biographies. Please find a version to download below.
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