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Summer Camps 2025!

Little Artist Summer Camp

Dates:
8th & 9th July 2025

Times:             10am – 1pm
Ages:               4 – 7 years      

Facilitated by local artists Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy, unleash your child’s creativity at our Art Summer Camp for kids ages 4-7! This fun-filled camp encourages young artists to explore their imagination through hands-on projects like painting, drawing, and sculpture. With a focus on self-expression and teamwork, children will develop fine motor skills, gain confidence, and create colourful masterpieces to take home. Join us for a summer of artistic adventure and fun!

Working under the theme of ‘The Sun’

Learn how to use light and tone to create sun lit images. Jelly plate print collaged landscapes showing the the sun rise or set…Learn how colour shifts from foreground to background and adds perspective. 

Why did our ancestors worship the Sun? Look at motifs and art inspired by the sun and learn the magic of plants using sunlight to make food, what sun filled designs could you make for a future sunny planet…?

Spaces are limited, so book today and let the artistic journey begin! 

BOOK NOW

Saturday Art Club Summer Camp

Dates:
10th & 11th July

Times:            10am – 2pm
Ages:               8 – 12 years    

Facilitated by local artists Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy, discover the world of art at our exciting Art Summer Camp for kids ages 8 – 12! This camp is designed to inspire young artists with a variety of creative projects, including painting, drawing, mixed media, and sculpture. With guidance from skilled facilitators, campers will refine their techniques, experiment with different materials, and express their unique ideas. It’s a perfect opportunity for kids to build confidence, make new friends, and create amazing artwork they’ll be proud to showcase!

Working under the theme of ‘The Sun’

Learn how to use light and tone to create sun lit images. Jelly plate print collaged landscapes showing the the sun rise or set…Learn how colour shifts from foreground to background and adds perspective. 

Why did our ancestors worship the Sun? Look at motifs and art inspired by the sun and learn the magic of plants using sunlight to make food, what sun filled designs could you make for a future sunny planet…?

Spaces are limited, so book today and let the artistic journey begin! 

BOOK NOW

Saturday Art Clubs – Upcoming Autumn 2025

Little Artist Club

Dates:
Saturday’s from September 2025

Times:             10.00am – 11.15pm
Ages:               4 – 6 years      

Facilitated by local artists Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy, the Little Artist Club and Saturday Art Club unlock your child’s imagination with exciting art activities! Whether your budding artist loves painting, drawing, constructing, storytelling, or exploring new crafts, these clubs inspire creativity and build confidence. Each fun-filled session includes hands-on activities to encourage self-expression while continuously building new skills.

Each term we visit the current exhibition in the Arts Centre where children can enjoy becoming art detectives looking for clues as to how and why the artist made their work. These discussions build creative thinking skills and can inspire new ways to make work.

In the older classes, we delve deeper into new and old materials and techniques and experience ever more perceptive discussions around the hows and whys of art.

Spaces are limited, so book today and let the artistic journey begin! 

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Saturday Art Club

Dates:
Saturday’s from September 2025

Times:            11.30am – 12.45pm
Ages:               7 – 12 years    

Facilitated by local artists Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy, the Little Artist Club and Saturday Art Club unlock your child’s imagination with exciting art activities! Whether your budding artist loves painting, drawing, constructing, storytelling, or exploring new crafts, these clubs inspire creativity and build confidence. Each fun-filled session includes hands-on activities to encourage self-expression while continuously building new skills.

Each term we visit the current exhibition in the Arts Centre where children can enjoy becoming art detectives looking for clues as to how and why the artist made their work. These discussions build creative thinking skills and can inspire new ways to make work.

In the older classes, we delve deeper into new and old materials and techniques and experience ever more perceptive discussions around the hows and whys of art.

Spaces are limited, so book today and let the artistic journey begin! 

booking Link Coming soon
Jeni Roddy

Jeni Roddy
Workshop Facilitator

Bríd Colloton
Workshop Facilitator

The Saturday Art Clubs are facilitated by artist Brid Colloton and Jeni Roddy. Read More

Jeni Roddy has worked for over twenty years as an interdisciplinary artist and designer producing live content through the mediums of theatre, film, and performance art. She works with textiles, nature, and the body and looks at how these intersect. She is concerned with how we can live responsibly and responsively in our localities and globally, being mindful and creative in our daily lives. She was Head of Costume for the  Wexford Festival Opera for four seasons and has designed many award-winning productions. In 2020, she completed a three-year project for Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture as a co-curator of Weatherproof Me, co-designer of Drowned Galway, and lead artist of Umbrella Orphanage.

Bríd Colloton is a Wexford-born artist whose main area of interest is the medium of printmaking. After working for many years in the world of business and career guidance, Brid returned to Gorey School of Art and Wexford Campus School of Art & Design (SETU) to pursue her love of all things creative and reflective. Bríd works with many forms of printmaking such as dry point etching, copper etching, monotype, collagraph, and carborundum.  She is a regular in Graphic Print Studio in Dublin and set up her own printmaking studio at home to include the more environmentally friendly process of aluminium etching.

Art & Play Workshops – For parents & Toddlers

For: Parents & Toddlers

Ages: 0-3 years with parental participation

Date: Thursday 3rd July, 10.45am-12.00pm

Our Art & Play workshops aim to connect parents and guardians to the current exhibitions in the Arts Centre while allowing 0–3-year-olds explore the works on display and related materials afterwards. The series provides a safe, fun space for babies and their parents/guardians to play and connect with the arts and with each other.

Through the workshops, participants will experiment with a variety of sensory delights. From finger paint to collage, we will explore all sorts of hands-on techniques, perfect for developing motor skills and encouraging creativity.

Our Art & Play Workshops, devised by Laura Larkin in 2023, are facilitated by artist Laura Flood. Read More

Laura Flood graduated with a BA Hons in Art from the Wexford Campus School of Art & Design in 2019 and an MA in Art & Research Collaboration at IADT in 2024. She is currently completing a one-year professional Natural Dyers course with Apple Oaks Fibreworks. She also studied permaculture design in Portugal in 2020 after graduating from college. She is a recipient of the ArtLinks Bursary 2023 and has previously shown work at IMMA Earth Rising Festival, The LAB gallery, and Wexford Arts Centre. She will be the artist in residence for the Art & Play programme at Wexford Arts Centre in 2025. Laura has organically grown flowers to make her natural dyes. She works with natural materials and is informed by permaculture theory.

Laura Flood
Workshop Facilitator

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Easter Camps 2025

Calling all children – join us this Easter for a camp that explore the sounds of Spring…

Dates: Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th April

Times: 10am – 1pm
Ages: 4 – 6 years

Dates: Thursday 17th and Friday 18th April

Times: 10am – 2pm
Ages: 7 – 12 years

Spring is hear!

How do we see sounds? Inspired by sounds of Spring and chirping of new life all around, our young artists will evolve sound creatures first in 2D and then into 3D clay models. Exploring sound through drawing and making is a wonderfully fun way to connect to our senses, environment, and inner rhythm. We’ll listen to interesting sounds extracted from nature, and there will be fun activities as the children come up with their own sounds for us to draw.

Make sure to book early and listen out for interesting sounds in your environment you can tell us about. 

Previous Workshops 2024

Culture Night: Art Workshop!

Date: Friday 20th September, 5-6pm
Ages: 6-10 years

Admission free but booking is essential

Calling all children!  Join us this Culture Night for a workshop led by artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín on her exhibition Edge of Range at Wexford Arts Centre. Laura will introduce children to large-scale drawing on compostable materials. The exhibition will be the starting point for creative, process-led activities such as glow in the dark mark-making experiments, seed germination, and botanical drawing. 

Edge of Range focuses on the cotton weed plant which is a distinctive species recognized by its dense covering of white, cottony hairs and yellow flower heads.  At present, the cotton weed plant is in a perilous state all across Europe.  The exhibition traces the story of this near extinction through a sculptural installation and wall-based works.

Culture Night: Exhibition Talk

Date: Friday 20th September, 7pm

Admission free but booking is essential

For Culture Night, Wexford Arts Centre will facilitate a late gallery opening from 5-8pm, offering more time to enjoy the current exhibition of Edge of Range by artist Laura Ní Fhlaibhín. The exhibition focuses on the cotton weed plant and traces the story of its near extinction through a sculptural installation and wall-based works. 

Laura Ní Fhlaibhín is an artist from Wexford. She is a Gilbert Bayes Royal Society of Sculptors Award U.K. recipient 2024 and has been awarded the 2025 Derek Hill Foundation residency at the British School of Rome. She was the recipient of the Goldsmiths Almacantar Bursary 2019, and was awarded the Next Generation Award 2020 from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Halloween workshop 2024

Calling all children – join us this Halloween for creepy crafty fun…

Date: Thursday 31st October

Times: 10am – 11.15am
Ages: 4 – 6 years

Times: 11.30am – 12.45pm
Ages: 7 – 12 years

Finding inspiration from spooky Victorian parlour games we will get creative making weird and wonderful puppets from fun drawing games. These puppets will get a chance to tell their eerie stories in our supernatural mini theatre!


For further information on our workshop programme please email Lisa at lisa@wexfordartscentre.ie. Wexford Arts Centre’s opening hours are Tuesday – Saturday from 10am-4.30pm. 

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