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Kilkenny Artists: Presentations | Practice.ie Professional Learning Day: Kilkenny
2012-04-02
Kilkenny Artists: Presentations
We were delighted to have a group of 15 artists from Kilkenny participating in this day.
The participating artists were:
Polly Minett, Tunde Toth, Aisling Murphy, Sonja Vrsajkov, Garry McHugh, Colm Sheehan, Geri Doyle Ryan, Jean Conroy, Vera McEvoy, Ronan McRaois, Frances Micklem, Didi Wilson, Caroline Ryan.
We began the day with short presentations from each artist in the style of Pecha Kucha. Each artist was allowed to show 10 images and talk for just 20 seconds about each image.
We will have some video footage of these presentations in the coming days.In response to the work presented, participants were asked to say one thing they saw or heard. Here were some of the responses:- Fire
- Not very good at promoting myself
- Good fun
- New to practice
- Enjoyed themselves
- Lots of paper
- Hard work
- 3-dimensional work
- Creative thinking and bigger picture thinking
- Involvement
- Resourfulness/ recycling
- Improvisation
- Found objects
- Process
- "I do a bit of everything"
- Not as intended but better
- Teaching
- Facilitation
- Loads of colour
- Led by children
- "Children can do..."
We also had a general discussion about what when we found ourselves nodding or frowning during the presenations.
Here were some of the responses:
"Made me realise that other people are working in the same way as me."
"It’s a two-way process: What the children are doing is feeding back into our own practice."
"Children often come up with their own ideas and this changes the direction of the project. In a good way."
"There is no ownership! But so much more comes back."
"Mixture of abilities. All artists are working with a wide range of children of differing abilities."
"Negotiation skills are important. Some artists don’t realise they can negotiate for better terms & conditions."
"The need to be inspired"
"Epic displays. Some work is very large-scale and I feel they should be seen in more places where more people can see them."
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