• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • What’s On
    • Reviews
  • Visual Arts
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Forthcoming Exhibitions
    • Touring Exhibition
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Artist Talks & Screenings
      • Artist Talks
      • Screenings
      • Off-site Events
    • MAKE/curate
    • Emergence Award
    • Living Arts Project
      • Living Arts Project Seminar 2022
    • Children/Teen/Adult Workshops
      • insight Education Portal
    • Creative Hub -Bull Ring Mall
    • D’Lush Cafe Exhibitions
      • Current Exhibitions
      • Past Exhibitions
    • Wexford Blue Whale: Chanies Across the Sea
  • Get Involved
    • Job Opportunities
    • Presentation Centre Enniscorthy
    • Artist Talks
    • Four Rivers Theatre Company
    • Wexford Playwright Commission Award
    • Cultural Companions
    • WAC Event & Workshop Recordings
    • Red Moon Creative Arts Theatre
    • Jazz Artist in Residence 2021
    • Artist in Residence 2021
    • Archive
      • Lift Residency 2022 Open Call
      • South East Venue Network Artist Bursary Award 2022
      • Summer Sessions – Young Voices 2022
      • Creative Youth Lab – Transition Year programme
      • Bull Ring Mall – Application Information
      • South East Venue Network Artist Bursary
      • Online Workshops at Wexford Arts Centre 2020
      • PwC Spotlight ​programme
      • Creative Hub: Wexford Playwrights Studio
      • Artist Residency
      • My Cultural Heritage documentary
  • Your Visit
    • Dlush Cafe
    • Opening hours, Access and Local transport
    • Local Accommodation
    • Covid Protocol
  • Giftshop
  • Support Us
    • Supporting Us
      • Wexford Arts Centre Friends & Corporate Sponsors Programmes
    • Wexford Arts Centre Capital Developments
    • Music Artist support fund
    • Make a Donation
    • Customer Satisfaction Survey
  • About
    • Meet the Team
    • What we do
    • Board and Governance
    • Technical Specs
    • Room Hire
    • Box Office Services
    • Child Safeguarding Statement & Privacy and Data Protection Policy
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
wexfordartscentre

wexfordartscentre

Arts for All, Arts for Life

Tel 053 912 3764

View All Events

You are here: Home / Art Centre Exhibitions / Past Exhibitions / 2019 / Group: The Living Arts Project 2018-19

Group: The Living Arts Project 2018-19

June 9, 2020 by Wexford Arts Centre

Living Arts Project Exhibition 2018-19
In association with the Arts Department of Wexford County Council, the Arts Council
and the Creative Ireland Programme.

Official opening: Saturday 30th March at 3pm
Opened by Artist & Filmmaker Els Dietvorst
All welcome, refreshments served.

In 2013, the Living Arts Project was established as an artist-in-residency scheme in primary schools, supporting the existing partnership between the Arts Department of Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre. The aim of this project is to provide children with an understanding and appreciation of contemporary visual art. The Living Arts Project exhibition represents a selection of work produced by the participating primary schools and offers pupils a chance to see their work presented in a professional gallery.

The following artists and schools were selected for this year’s project; Orla Bates with Rathnure National School, Clare Breen with Murrintown National School, Caoimhe Dunn with St. Joseph’s National School – Kilmuckridge, and Oonagh Latchford with St. Joseph’s National School – Ballymitty. Over the course of a fifteen-week programme, pupils responded to the work of each residency artist and were introduced to film making, mixed media sculpture, printmaking, painting and drawing processes.

Supported by the Creative Ireland Programme, artists Els Dietvorst and Frank Abruzzese worked with pupils from Ramsgrange Community School for a second year. The residency, developed with Art Teacher Aoife Power, included workshops on drawing, printmaking and photography. Through the themes of climate change and sustainability, the activities focused on promoting artistic and interpersonal skills and enabled pupils to recognize the potential of art to be used as a tool for communication and learning.

A mentorship programme ran alongside each residency, and each artist nominated an independent artist or curator they felt was relevant to their professional practice. This mentorship helped to ensure the effectiveness and integrity of the programme on an ongoing basis, while also providing a positive critique for the resident artist. The following mentors were involved in the 2018/19 project: David Begley, Clare Butcher, Els Dietvorst, Eammon Maxwell, and Kate Murphy.

An assistant artist’s programme runs in tandem with artists’ residencies thereby creating more opportunities for shared knowledge in relation to creating and mediating contemporary visual art. This year’s assistant artists were Aoife Banville, Michelle Colfer, Sheena Furlong, and Patricia Kent.

The Arts Department of Wexford County Council and Wexford Arts Centre would like to take this opportunity to thank all schools, artists and mentors involved in the project, and the local community for their support and interest in the project to date.

​The exhibition will run in the upper and lower galleries of Wexford Arts Centre from Monday 1st April to Saturday 4th May 2019, and gallery hours are Monday to Friday from 10am-5pm, and Saturday from 10am-4pm. If your school is interested in participating in the Living Arts Project 2019/2020, please contact Catherine Bowe, Visual Arts Manager on +353 (0)53 9123764 or email catherine@wexfordartscentre.ie.

For further information on Wexford County Council’s full arts programme please visit www.wexfordcoco.ie/arts-and-culture or call 053-9196441 / email arts@wexfordcoco.ie.

​The Living Art Project is funded by the Arts Department of Wexford County Council, The Arts Council and participating schools. The project is administered by Wexford Arts Centre.

livingartproject_exhibitionbrochure.pdf
Download File

Photography by Frank Abruzzese and Lar O’Toole
Frank Abruzzese: www.frankabruzzese.com or www.cowhousestudios.com
Lar O’Toole: www.lo2l.ie

Filed Under: 2019, Past Exhibitions

Primary Sidebar

Exhibitions

  • Art Centre Exhibitions
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions
      • 2012
      • 2013
      • 2014
      • 2015
      • 2016
      • 2017
      • 2018
      • 2019
      • 2020
      • 2021
      • 2022
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
  • D Lush Cafe Exhibitions
    • Current Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions
      • 2015
      • 2016
      • 2017
      • 2018
      • 2019
      • 2020
  • Off-site Events
  • Online Workshops at WAC
  • Screenings
  • Touring Exhibition
  • Uncategorized
  • Wexford Whale Project

Footer

Wexford Arts Centre
Tweets by wexfordarts
Cookie Policy | Privacy Statement & GDPR Compliance
© 2023. Copyright Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford. Reg No 306536
Website Designers TwoHeads Logo