Category archives: Projects

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 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 […]

Your Seedling Language is a site-responsive sculptural apparatus that translates atmospheric flows into syllabic sounds, speaking this place-based language in conversation with the earth. The artwork consists of two parts: a cluster of sound-and-light-producing sculptures in the school’s entry stairwell, and a sensor tower outside of St Catherine’s National School, Rush, Co. Dublin. The artwork […]

I Sing the Body Electric gave students from three West Limerick National Schools a first-hand, behind-the-scenes understanding of the role of the curator within contemporary arts practice. I Sing the Body Electric took place as part of the 38th EVA International, which took its starting point from Keating’s Night Candles are Burnt Out (1927) by […]

The Masterplan engaged the collective student voice in the context of the redevelopment of their school’s neighbourhood through aggregating a spoken word choir. In the spring-summer term of 2016, Art School invited artists Ella DeBurca and John Beattie to work in partnership with multiple classes and teachers in Dublin 7 Educate Together, Grangegorman. Together they […]

Bead Game explored the shared space between art and philosophy through material-discursive methods of thinking.  During the Spring-Summer term of 2016, Art School invited artist Fiona Hallinan, curator Katy Fitzpatrick and philosopher Aislinn O’Donnell to work in partnership with fifth class students and teachers from Bray School Project, and fourth class students and teachers from […]