Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Young Creatives – Creative Paths – Create!
Crinniú na nÓg 2024
12.00-2.00pm
If you are enjoying a stimulating creative life and want to hear more about the lives of others, as well as a four session taster workshop, this is for you.
Four recently graduated artists, and artists in their early career, are here to meet and mentor Teenager and young people interested in creativity.
Join painter Hannah Nī Mhaonaigh, sculptor and mixed media artist Aideen Broccardo, moving image artist Ella Murphy, and painter, Diarmuid Woodcock, for this immersive session.
Part 1:
In this informal session, each of the artists share their creative journey from school into college and since, and across their various chosen disciplines and interests, from painting to sculpture and mixed media, to drawing and film/moving image, and sharing examples of their work. This is presented in a panel discussion format in the Upper Gallery.
Part 2:
The second part of the session is practical and each of the artists will offer a taster workshop, with those participating being able to attend each of the four artists sessions, across the different media and processes.
You are welcome to bring examples of your own work so you can share and discuss them with the emerging artists.
The session is free, and all materials supplied.
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Artist Profiles
Aideen Broccardo is a recent graduate of Fine Art from TU Dublin’s School of Art and Design. Primarily with sculptural and lens-based methods to explore the increasing absence of the natural world in anthropocentric thinking, Broccardo considers the processes of life, decay and loss in response to this absence evidenced in language. Finding inherent value in all of nature, she uses clay and porcelain in an eco-centric approach to explore this lost language, renewing its value as tangible things, which occupy artistic space.
Hannah Ní Mhaonaigh creates paintings on linen and on various surfaces including found objects. The titling of her work is an essential part of Ní Mhaonaigh’s process, which she considers as an attempt to grab hold of these abstracted elements by the tufts of their tails. The repetitive practice of overpainting and paring back leads to an experimental yet determined fuinneamh (energy) in her finished pieces, the ones that managed to make it. These abstract forms become almost an excavation of fictional artefacts or remains. Natural shapes become abstract symbols unearthed as parts, sections, and unknowingly pieces of the artist herself, harking back to something more primitive, something from the earth, the roots of things, she’s digging.
