Young People's Gallery Based Project

Young People’s Gallery-based Project
with Sarah Ward for the Night Study exhibition
Wednesdays 1, 15 & 22 October
4:45 to 6:00 pm
For ages 12+
Free but booking essential through reception on 02822090 or info@westcorkartscentre.com
Maximum of 8 places

Over the course of 3 creative workshops, young people will explore the concept of night schools as an alternative form of education as presented in Glenn Loughran’s exhibition Night Study. The workshops will explore the gallery as a site of learning, challenging traditional formal education, the teacher and student power dynamic and hierarchies of knowledge.

With Sarah, participants will co-create a zine as an alternative to the conventional school “textbook”, reflecting their experiences and insights. Participants will consider how the gallery space can provide an alternative learning experience to formal education, asking; what do we learn and how do we learn in the gallery? What is missing from formal school education?

More Information:

The aim of the sessions is to empower young people to see themselves as knowledge producers, and to foster agency, inclusivity and belonging in the gallery.

Each week participants will have the opportunity to create personal and collective responses, led by spatial practice, movement and sensory-based exploration of the gallery.

Participants will work with drawing, photography, print-making and collage.

The series of workshops will provide experimentation and practice research opportunities for non-verbal, sensory, and spatial forms of engagement and learning. The methodology will consider embodiment as a pedagogical approach, inquiry-based and reflecting lived experience in knowledge production. Observation, documentation, and reflection will support the research on how spatial and embodied practices in the gallery encourage or prevent pedagogical processes**.

** Pedagogical processes refer to the methods, strategies, and approaches that educators use to facilitate learning and promote student development.

About the artist:

Sarah is an artist educator based in Dublin. Her multidisciplinary practice explores the relationships between space, embodiment and pedagogy. Through her multidisciplinary practice and research Sarah positions space as a vital means in how we come to learn and experience the self, others and the world we live in.

Sarah is currently a PhD candidate at TU Dublin, as part of the ARISE Scholarship programme co-funded by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund.

Sarah’s research title Sites of Learning will examine the educational relationship between artists, galleries and the public through practice-based research.