Let's Explore the artwork of John Kindness.

Fingal Arts Office recently Celebrated 25 Years of Collecting Art! Over the next few days we will share an artwork from this amazing collection with you and invite you to respond with your own masterpieces.Ideal for all ages and abilities, you might like to focus on developing your drawing or painting skills by recreating the artwork you see, or you might prefer to focus on a small detail to get started and then let your imagination run wild to create your very own original piece in response. The choice is yours! All we ask is that you share your finished artwork for us all to see and enjoy. This way we stay together and connected through art.

Let’s begin with Irish Artist John Kindness. This print is called, ‘Charles Coote’, made in 1998, using two plate etching, aquatint & drypoint. Artists explore their subject matter in detail and carefully consider their composition. Look closely, what can you see? Explore the focal character and his garments, look at the background drapes, what else can you find?  Look around your home and find objects to draw.  Maybe someone at home would like to volunteer to be the subject matter of your artwork! Using whatever and whoever you can find, make your very own artwork inspired by John Kindness’ print.

What Do You See? Let's Explore the artwork of Catherine Barron.

Fingal Arts Office recently Celebrated 25 Years of Collecting Art! Over the next few days we will share an artwork from this amazing collection with you and invite you to respond with your own masterpieces.Ideal for all ages and abilities, you might like to focus on developing your drawing or painting skills by recreating the artwork you see, or you might prefer to focus on a small detail to get started and then let your imagination run wild to create your very own original piece in response. The choice is yours! All we ask is that you share your finished artwork for us all to see and enjoy. This way we stay together and connected through art.

Today we are delighted to share ‘Soup & Bread’ by Irish Artist Catherine Barron. It was made in 2013 using acrylic ink on sheet metal.  Artists use lots of different techniques and materials for creating their artwork. What do you think about the materials used to make this work, look at its shape? Can you look around your home and find interesting materials to draw or paint directly on to? Catherine once said that ‘windows frame a particular place, time and way of life. They are the eyes of a home’. Using your window look outside and capture the shapes, colours or objects you see. In Catherine’s piece she is looking from the outside in. Look around your home for materials to draw, colour and paint with; magazines & fabric cuttings for great for collage, what else can you find? Using your materials create an artwork in response to Catherine’s piece.

The Old Peach House, Malahide Castle’ by Fingal artist Susan Sex.

Fingal Arts Office recently Celebrated 25 Years of Collecting Art! Over the next few days we will share an artwork from this amazing collection with you and invite you to respond with your own masterpieces. Ideal for all ages and abilities, you might like to focus on developing your drawing or painting skills by recreating the artwork you see, or you might prefer to focus on a small detail to get started and then let your imagination run wild to create your very own original piece in response. The choice is yours! All we ask is that you share your finished artwork for us all to see and enjoy. This way we stay together and connected through art.

Summer time calls us to look again at the beautiful colours, patterns and rhythms found in nature. Today we’re delighted to share ‘The Old Peach House, Malahide Castle’ by Fingal artist Susan Sex. A watercolour on paper, it was commissioned by Fingal County Council in 2018. Susan is a botanical artist and has studied plants and their habitats for many years. What kind of plants can you find at home and in your surrounding environment? You might find a houseplant, an outdoor shrub, a wild flower. You might even find a plant in your fridge! Whatever you discover, study the detail, the colour, the shape, the texture. What does it smell like? How does it feel? Using your senses - sight, smell, sound, touch, what other information can you gather? Then create your own artwork in response to Susan’s painting using any materials you can find at home and share it with friends, family and Fingal County Council.

Fingal Arts Office is working in partnership this year with Dublin Youth Dance Company (DYDC) to secure a dance residency placement in four primary schools in Swords and Balbriggan, Fingal.

An experienced dance artist will be chosen by DYDC to take up a six-week residency position in each school. DYDC introduces dance in an imaginative and creative way. Children will learn to express themselves through movement, accompanied by music. The workshops focus on kinesthetic learning and uses movement as a method of reinforcing language and other focus areas of the curriculum.

Calling Post Primary Schools to apply for Flourish - a new arts-in-education project for TY students 

Fingal County Council’s Arts Office is delighted to be working in partnership with Superprojects, to bring this new arts-in-education opportunity to a post-primary school in Fingal. There is provision for one school to participate and the project is aimed at a transition year class. 

We now invite you to read the information attached, and if you are interested in the project on behalf of your students please email an expression of interest to julie.clarke@fingal.ie at Fingal Arts Office, no later than Wednesday 11th of December.

The school will be selected and notified by Tuesday 17th of December, and an initial meeting to plan the project delivery will be organized for January 2020.

Your Expression of Interest should include:
• a statement of interest in the project
• an agreement of participation on behalf of a TY group
• a brief explanation of how this will benefit the students (max 80 words)
• a named contact teacher and contact details
 

Calling Post Primary Schools in Balbriggan & Swords to apply for The Art Life – an arts-in-education initiative for 2020 

Fingal Arts Office is delighted to be working in partnership with Superprojects to bring this new arts-in-education opportunity to two second level schools in Fingal. There is provision for two schools to participate and the project is aimed at transition year class groups. 

We now invite you to read the information attached, and if you are interested in the project on behalf of your students please email an expression of interest to julie.clarke@fingal.ie at Fingal Arts Office, no later than Wednesday 11th of December.

The school will be selected and notified by Tuesday 17th of December, and an initial meeting to plan the project delivery will be organized for January 2020.

Your Expression of Interest should include:
• a statement of interest in the project
• an agreement of participation on behalf of a TY group
• a brief explanation of how this will benefit the students (max 80 words)
• a named contact teacher and contact details
 

Film Premiere
Tuesday 24th of April
11am – 12 noon
The Irish Museum of Modern Art

Everything is in Everything began in 2016 when Fingal Arts Office and Superprojects joined forces to initiate a collaborative commission between Artists Clodagh Emoe and Jenny Brady, and students from Hartstown Community School.  The project began in earnest with creative discussion and workshops in the school in 2017.  The students visited exhibitions at IMMA, and welcomed writer Sue Rainsford into speak with them about creating narratives in artwork.  The artistic outcome of this project is an evocative moving-image artwork ‘The Butterfly Effect’, which considers causality and regret in modern life.

Fingal Arts office are aware that local primary schools are working to initiate and develop music education programmes for their pupils.  We will offer support to these schools through this new initiative.   

This initiative provides financial support to schools to obtain a musician-in-residence.  For the purpose of this scheme a musician-in-residence is:
• A professional musician with a qualification in music and experience of working with children;  who will deliver regular music lessons to the children of your school within the school day

As part of the Fingal 2016 Centenary Programme, Fingal County Council’s Arts Office is working in partnership with Fingal Curator Cleo Fagan, founder of Superprojects*, to provide a unique arts-in-education initiative for two post-primary schools in Fingal.  The project explores the multiple layers of meaning and contexts associated with the 1916 Easter Rising and the commemorations in 2016.  The project links history and the everyday, bringing awareness to the influence of individuals, collectives and our material environment on social and political changes, past and present.  (image: Ruth Lyons, Pilot Light, 2015) 

Room 13 Inquiry is a dynamic investigation into the potential of shared art studio spaces in school settings.  It has evolved in two primary schools in Fingal since its inception in 2014. It includes the provision of a dedicated art studio space, an artist in residence, and a series of exhibition and artists' studio visits for each school. 

In collaboration with Draiocht we are offering young people ages 14-18 years an opportunity to produce their very own film. Facilitated by Createschool, workshops will be delivered over five days (June 27th-July 1st 10am-4pm each day) participants will learn to effectively script, storyboard, act, film, edit and produce their very own film.  Using mobile digital devices and a selection of apps participants will learn a multitude of skills and tips for filmmaking including audio engineering – recording, editing, mixing and mastering.   

Are you interested in Filmmaking?

We are offering young people in Fingal the opportunity to establish a Film Club this February!

Read on to find out more......
 

An Architecture/Urban Design Project for Young People initiated by the Irish Architecture Foundation and Fingal County Council.

Music Generation is a funding scheme funded by U2 and the Ireland Funds, which offers funding to support and establish local Music Education Partnerships (MEP) throughout Ireland. 50% funding to a maximum of €200,000 per year over three years. Matching funding generated locally from MEP resources, may be a combination of monetary income and/or support-in-kind.

Project title:  Vivid Visions 

Info to follow