Thinking Visual explored the site of the school as a space of production, transforming it into a studio and stage, tuning into what is at play, interacting and producing new realities through sound and film. In the autumn term of 2014, Art School invited artists Sven Anderson and John Beattie to work on a project […]
Monthly archives: March 2022
The Student Body
The Student Body cast the idea of a collective body through the lenses of the gut–brain axis (the ‘second brain’), school ‘traffic’ flows and ritualistic procession. In the autumn term of 2016, Jennie Guy brought artists Maria McKinney and Rhona Byrne to work with students and teachers of Blessington Community College. McKinney introduced students to […]
Marino
Image of the Self With and Amongst Others
Image of the Self With and Amongst Others is a project that hones in on the relationship between identity and portraiture, in the singular and plural. In the autumn term of 2016, Art School invited Mark O’Kelly to work in partnership with the Transition Year students and teachers of Our Lady’s School, Terenure. O’Kelly guided […]
How to Swim On Dry Land
How to Swim on Dry Land questioned the practices and contexts of learning, from the abstraction of classroom learning to the habits and tacit knowledge acquired through worldly experience. In the autumn term of 2016, Art School invited Sarah Browne and the students and teachers of Killinarden Community School to work together. Through a series […]
Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey explored multiperspectivalism and nonhuman embodiment, investigating what a bird’s perspective might be using image-based and sculptural aids. In the autumn term of 2017, Maria McKinney invited Art School to work in partnership with 4th class teachers and students of St Mary’s National School, Maynooth. Through a series of workshops, McKinney introduced students […]
TransActions
Issue #2 Field and Academy: Knowledge and counter knowledge in socially engaged art (2017) is a collaboration between the MA Socially Engaged Art + Further Education at NCAD, Fire Station Artists’ Studios and Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts. Drawing threads from the meta to the micro level of knowledge production, issue #2 […]
The Lives We Live
‘…the lives we live’ is a collection of experiences, perspectives and stories, recounted through visuals and texts by the artists, collaborators, and stakeholders who have engaged in the last 5 years of this phase of the Public Art programme at Grangegorman. Since 2015, ‘…the lives we live’ Grangegorman Public Art has supported more than 30 […]
Curriculum
Curriculum: Contemporary Art Goes to School explores the intersection of contemporary art practice and school education. It surveys Art School, an art-in-education initiative led by Jennie Guy that has brought contemporary artists to work with primary and secondary school students in Ireland since 2014. Breaching the conventions of art and craft education, these collaborations are […]