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For her first solo exhibition at Crawford Art Gallery, Persistent Illusion, artist Rita Duffy presents a trilogy of new, largescale works that address urgent themes of planetary crisis and political chaos. We have designed a resource pack to support Senior Cycle students in exploring this exhibition and forming their own opinions. It is especially relevant to the leaving cert section: Visual Studies Today’s World Art as Social Commentary or Commentator.
Devised by Ciara Wall Download the Resource Booklet here.
An opportunity for young people to creatively explore neurodiversity
Ages 13-16 / Limited to 10 young people
How do you see the world?
What is your favourite place in the universe?
Artists Isabella Dogliani and Danielle Sheehy invite teens who identify as neurodivergent to join them for three days of art making. These free workshops will explore neurodiversity using a range of creative tools: podcasting, sculpture, drawing and installation. Workshops will focus on creating a safe, shared space for working together.
Unfortunately, at the moment all of our classes are subscribed to maximum capacity. If any places in the classes become available, they will be advertised on our mailing list and allocated on a first come first serve basis.
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Children’s Art Classes
Fully Booked
We run Saturday art classes for children aged 8 - 12 years. Classes aim to build confidence, exploring techniques and materials through drawing, colour and making. The fee is €100 for 10 classes, which includes all art materials.
The time slots are: 10am - 11.30am 11.15am - 12.45pm
Teen Art Classes
Fully Booked
We run Thursday evening Classes for senior cycle students. 6pm – 7:30pm
Draw inspiration from art in the gallery - study art works up close - create your own responses - develop your ideas using drawing, print and paint.
Fee is €75 for 10 workshops, all art materials supplied.
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!’
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!
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
There are many ways of approaching drawing a face. This timelapse demonstrates techniques like comparing distances, using one feature to measure others, breaking down areas into shapes...
Try something new or find your own method. Draw people around you, use photos or magazine images or take inspiration from portraits in our online collection.
Here, Avril referred to Fergus Martin’s 'Head No. 32001' from the gallery collection, which can be found on the website.
Avril O’Brien is an artist and teen tutor.
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Click on the video below to view a timelapse of the process
Figure Drawing
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.
Drawing is all about Visual problem-solving. Eileen Healy’s
‘Portrait of Conal Creedon’ (2007) which is part of our collection is a
stimulus for this figurative drawing video.
HANDY TIPS FOR FIGURE DRAWING
PROPORTION Sighting: comparing angles, distances and shapes. Using a unit of measurement to compare sizes.
Expression through media, mark-making
BLOCKING Build Up your drawing! Focus on: Negative and positive space (Background and Figure) Light and shadow to create form with areas of tonal value
EXPRESSION Media chosen has a big effect on the feeling your drawing transmits. Mark-Making: Use a variety of dots, hatching, scribbles, soft marks. These create your expressive language.
UNITY Tie up the whole image. Quality of line: Use thick, thin or broken line. Details: Emphasise some areas, create texture, points of interest, facial expression. Mood: Just a few marks can change the background or the lighting of your image.
MATERIALS
You don’t need a collection of traditional art materials.
Look around your home!
Paper- Paper shopping bags, baking paper, cardboard boxes,
packaging.
Media - Spices, vegetables, condiments. We used beetroot for
dramatic expression. Ground turmeric (a tiny amount added to a little water), soy
sauce, tea and coffee created a sepia tone. Think about light, medium and dark
tones.
Mark-making tools – what is in the garden? Leaves, sticks.
Around the house? Pasta, straws, biros, scrunched up tissue, string.
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
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