The Dock in partnership with Carrick on Shannon Community School.
This year, 2021 The Dock are working with students and teachers to encourage them to discover more about the arts and their own creative potential through a series of focused workshops, talks and collaborative projects. This partnership will be looking at contemporary art and exhibitions at The Dock through a series of projects developed to examine creative thinking and learning that supports the school's TY syllabus.
The first stage of the project took place at the end of 2020 with workshops in the school with artist David Smith. The students examined areas of portraits, compositions, lighting and mediums through photography, drawing and painting. Discussions around barriers, distance and the traces we leave behind, encourage the students to make space to express themselves and discover how areas of their syllabus such as Geography, English and Physics relate to ideas of art and creativity. The students are working with three artists with different skills who lead online workshops and collaborative projects during school time to create a short term project.
Three Artists
Exploring the rich colours of winter with artist, David Smith, the students discover the process of colour mixing using science, theory and nature as a starting point in paint and digital media. A collaborative painting installation will be created as part of the online workshops.
Musician Stephanie Pawula will work with the students on exploring music and its possibilities through creating field recording, recording of day to day objects, voice and instruments. Listening and examining their own unique sound recordings and language, students will create a collection of newly composed musical works.
Artist and Storyteller Wayne O' Connor working with the students will create a world of adventure and myth. Mixing both art and creative writing, the created world will be showcased in a colourful book. Drawing inspiration from English syllabus, stories, books, games and films the students will be creating Fantasy world maps, creatures, crests and stories from their own fictional setting.
This project was developed with discussions and evaluation of the first stage of this new partnership led by Laura Mahon, The Dock Visual Arts & Education Manager, Joseph Bambrick, TY Programmes Coordinator, Teacher Maeve Cormican.