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A Sculptural Viewpoint

Andy Parsons & Scoil Mhuire Students

16 May — 31 August 2022
A Scupltural Viewpoint The Dock

About the Artist(s)

Andy Parson's practice combines working in community contexts with making drawing, sculpture, and painting. Projects have focused on people and places, and on activities where people work together and help each other. He has worked in a Community Care setting for older people, Mental Health Inpatients, and a community boat building project in the Sligo docks.Recently completed two major projects; ‘Conversations in Portrait’ a virtual portrait project with older people across Ireland, and a two-year residency at Sligo University Hospital for The Model Home of The Niland Collection, which culminated in a major solo exhibition at The Model in Autumn 2021 entitled ‘Patience’. In the summer of 2022, Andy will exhibit a new body of sculpture, drawings and paintings in Tokyo, Japan.
He has received several significant awards, including the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award. Exhibited internationally, with solo shows in London and Tokyo.

Scoil Mhuire N.S, Carrick on Shannon, 6th class:
Samanta Stancuka, Andrea Voinescu, Andzelika Pelnika, Bogdana Brynetska , Vidhi Bhatt, Angel Ginoby, Eimantas Serpytis, Ava Curley, Hubert Kowalczyk, Samanta Siaudvityte, Kuba Nykl, Karla Masterson, Maya Slawek, Estela Steinberga, Mohamad Spahi, Katie McDwyer, Anna Trench Winston, Sadhbh O'Dowd, Chloe Cummins, Denis Levytskyy, Kaia Moran, Elvis Shehaj, Madison McDermott, Aurelia Zelias, Joshua Szymanski and Krystian Kopczynski
Teachers: Ms Ann Gilchrest and Mr Michael McGuiness

More Information

Artist website
Recent exhibition 'Patience' website

Cruinniú na nÓg 2022

Cruinniú na nÓg 2022 – the National Day of Creativity for children and young people takes place on Saturday 11th June, and is funded by Creative Ireland through Leitrim County Council. The model is similar to Culture Night except, in this case, events are held during the day, and are focused on providing children and young people with opportunities to explore creativity.

This year, The Dock worked with artist Andy Parsons on an investigation of the sculptural forms that surround us in our everyday lives in an event entitled, A Sculptural Viewpoint. The artist worked with a group of primary school students and examined how 3D forms can be both playful and informative. The class deconstructed various aspects of Contemporary Sculpture and examined how the natural beauty and environs of Carrick-on-Shannon can inform sculptural works and held with discussions regarding local historical sites/sculptures, and how these works can showcase, inspire and provide a pedestal for the young people's works.

In this series of workshops in The Dock, Parsons introduced a group of young people from Scoil Mhuire N.S. Carrick on Shannon to ideas surrounding Contemporary Sculpture, and in turn the group created a series of varied and exciting 3-dimensional works. The group worked with basic sculptural materials, such as found objects, Papier-mâché, bamboo, and aluminium armature wire. They created a series of sculptures exploring form, balance, and texture, and then photographed the sculptures in situ and in the environs of Carrick on Shannon.

The work was underscored by a visit to the ‘The Louvre of the Pebble’ exhibition by Bennie Reilly at The Dock which took as one of its main themes the grammar of display in relation to sculptural objects and played with ideas of hierarchies in relation to museum displays.

During five days in May, with workshops in the school, at The Dock, and around Carrick on Shannon, all workshops and activities took place before Cruinniú na nÓg day. A documentation video reel of the work process was produced and is now available to watch above.

A select number of photographs and the student’s sculptural works are exhibited in The Dock’s Jury Room Cafe for Cruinniú na nÓg day and until August. These images form part of the project's discovery process - looking at the landscape or environment around Carrick on Shannon as a plinth, or pedestal, for sculpture.

Exhibiting young artists and teacher

Cruinniú na n Óg 2022 A Sculptural Viewpoint Exhibition Scoil Mhuire at The Dock
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