Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Children’s Summer Clay Workshops
Select your preferred date in July
- Thursday 18th July – 11:30am to 1pm
- Tuesday 23rd July – 11:30am to 1pm
- Wednesday 24th July – 11:30am to 1pm
Join Maureen Finn for an immersive, tactile Summer Clay Sculpture workshop where your child can express themselves exploring form, shape, texture, mark-making.
In this session children will create clay sculptures inspired by birds, animals and mythical creatures used in Byzantine art.
Children will experiment with various ceramic techniques rolling ,pinching and manipulating clay, use texturing tools and coloured slips to create their individual ceramic pieces.
The forms, birds, animals and mythical creatures that the children create will be fired by Maureen and available to collect from the gallery in the weeks following the workshop.
Clay is a very supple and tactile material, simply playing with clay can stimulate the pressure points in our hands which leads to therapeutic benefits. It is also one of the oldest and widespread art forms and its ancient techniques have remained unchanged and are still used today to form sculptural, decorative and functional work.
About Children’s Workshops at Highlanes Gallery
Workshops are for children aged 5 – 13yrs and charged at €8 per child.
Workshops at the gallery are process-based and explore basic concepts and ideas with children as they are looking. The emphasis is placed on understanding the ideas surrounding the objects. Making objects forms part of that process but is not the only goal of the workshop.
For further information, please telephone the gallery reception on T| 041-9803311 or email| info@highlanes.ie
All materials are supplied.
