Schools Projects Archive
Edgelands Exhibition
6 February to 12 March 2024, Stairwell Galleries
Uillinn Schools Programme 2023/2024
Kilcoe National School, Our Lady of Mercy National School, Dromore National School, Ardagh Boys School, Goleen National School
Edgeland Schools Project takes inspiration from the artwork and themes seen in the recent exhibition Speculative Artefacts by the artist Pascal Ungerer here at Uillinn.
West Cork Primary Schools were invited to apply to participate in the programme which began with a tour of the Speculative exhibition followed by an art workshop.
Public Engagement Assistant, Petrina Shortt, visited each school and facilitated workshops to help the children develop and make their own artworks in response to the exhibition.
About Pascal Ungerer
Pascal Ungerer is an Irish visual artist originally from West Cork. He has a background in lens-based media and in recent years has focused on developing his painting practice. He is interested in looking at the in-between spaces that lie at the outskirts of towns; where industrial buildings meet the nature of the countryside. He is drawn to unusual structures in the landscape, as well as places that have hidden histories.
The Art Project: Developing Ideas
The children took inspiration from ideas discussed around the exhibition. Some of the themes we will touch on are:
Images: A piece from the exhibition by school children
Monolith by Pascal Ungerer
FLOCK TOGETHER: Birds for Peace
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Schools Winter Installation December 2023
Flock: a gathering of individual birds that travel together.
Our participating students were asked to do the following:
In November 2023 Uillinn invited local schools to create unique and imaginative birds that carry messages of peace and happiness.The birds were hung as a festive art installation titled Flock Together.We encouraged teachers to use this project as a link to subjects/themes within the curriculum.
learning links idea:
Bright Lines
Spring Schools Programme 2023
Bright Lines – Children’s exhibition of work – Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 3 June – 1 July.
Bright Lines invited students to stretch how they see and interpret the world around them and weave together new stories.
Bright Lines invited students to be creative with their responses blending items from their everyday life with their imagination.
Altogether 100 students from 1st – 6th class worked on Bright lines – our Spring education programme for primary schools.
Following a tour and workshop at Uillinn with Public Engagement Artist Kate McElroy viewing the work of Sérgio Leitao The Fallout the students were visited in their classrooms to develop their own collaborative collages exploring creativity and storytelling.
A sincere thank you to students from Dromore NS, Scoil Mhuire NS, Schull, Scoil na mbuachaillí, Clonakilty and Gaelscoil Dr. Uí Shúilleabháin, Skibbereen for their excellent creative work and the teachers for taking part in the programme.
Images: Students in their classrooms creating collaborative drawings
Art Activity
On Saturday 10 June between 10 AM – 1PM, children and young people are invited to take part in a drop in art activity at the centre where they too can add their artistic contributions to Bright Lines. This collaborative drawing art activity is part of the celebration of Crinniú na nÓg – A day of free creativity for children and young people.
Worlds Within Words
Spring Schools Programme 2022
Students workshop responses
Worlds within Words was our Spring 2022 schools programme designed by Uillinn’s Public Engagement Artist Kate McElroy. It was created in response to the exhibition Interactive Museum of Languages a touring exhibition by Artist Tomasz Madajczak commissioned by Mother Tongues which promotes multilingualism and diversity in Ireland.
Kate facilitated tours, workshops and classroom visits with four school groups of varying ages; Senior infants from St Patrick’s Boys school, Skibbereen, 4th class from Timoleague National School, 5th class from Scoil Mhuire NS, Schull and Junior Certs from Mount St Michael, Rosscarbery.
By engaging with the interactive artworks and participating in the delivery of an art programme, children explored other languages, cultures and diversity and created their own artistic response to these themes. The exhibition opening coincided with Cruinniú na nÓg, the national day of Creativity for Young People and ran until 23 June, 2022.
