Working with Bradòg Boys
Fionnuala Hanahoe [NCAD] and Alice Rekab [NCAD]
Title: ‘The Pocket Gallery’
In this project Fionnuala Hanahoe and Alice Rekab worked with a small group of 9-10 year olds in "The Pocket" otherwise known as Georges Place, a small Dublin City Council Flat complex near Temple St Children's Hospital in Dublin 1. Over an 8 week period with the help and facilitation of Bradog youth workers they engaged in various weekly art projects and activities based on the children's own interests.
Focusing on process, as artists we established our points of control in the materials chosen and the presentation of the work, seeking to provide a framework where their energy and ideas could be communicated in a clear and genuine way.
The theme of the project, from the artists perspective addresses notions of territory and childhood, reflecting on a simple drawing project undertaken during the placement, where when asked to draw their homes each child drew a traditional representation of a house with a door, a roof and a window. The artists were intrigued by the difference between the external environment that they were working in and that of the imagined space which existed in the children's minds.
"The Pocket Gallery": a two fold gallery and on-site installation consists of two houses one big and one small. The small house situated in the gallery acts as a gallery within a gallery. It was decorated by the children on the outside while its interior (a white cube) contains the artists own video and sound installations, created using documentation from the workshops.
Joined by a yellow line leading from the installation in the gallery to the flats, the big house will be located on site in "The Pocket" from 5pm-8pm on the 30th of April. It will act as a temporary gallery that will host a party and exhibition of all the children's work. It is a place where they can invite their friends and family to see what they have done and celebrate their work.
"The Pocket Gallery" seeks to represent a space that belongs to those that created it, underlining the connection between the artwork and the origins of its production. A melange of imagination and hard work. It is the mascot of the time well spent getting to know, enjoy, learn and understand what we could of these children and the quality and potential of creative exchange.
Fionnuala Hanahoe [NCAD] and Alice Rekab [NCAD]
Title: ‘The Pocket Gallery’
In this project Fionnuala Hanahoe and Alice Rekab worked with a small group of 9-10 year olds in "The Pocket" otherwise known as Georges Place, a small Dublin City Council Flat complex near Temple St Children's Hospital in Dublin 1. Over an 8 week period with the help and facilitation of Bradog youth workers they engaged in various weekly art projects and activities based on the children's own interests.
Focusing on process, as artists we established our points of control in the materials chosen and the presentation of the work, seeking to provide a framework where their energy and ideas could be communicated in a clear and genuine way.
The theme of the project, from the artists perspective addresses notions of territory and childhood, reflecting on a simple drawing project undertaken during the placement, where when asked to draw their homes each child drew a traditional representation of a house with a door, a roof and a window. The artists were intrigued by the difference between the external environment that they were working in and that of the imagined space which existed in the children's minds.
"The Pocket Gallery": a two fold gallery and on-site installation consists of two houses one big and one small. The small house situated in the gallery acts as a gallery within a gallery. It was decorated by the children on the outside while its interior (a white cube) contains the artists own video and sound installations, created using documentation from the workshops.
Joined by a yellow line leading from the installation in the gallery to the flats, the big house will be located on site in "The Pocket" from 5pm-8pm on the 30th of April. It will act as a temporary gallery that will host a party and exhibition of all the children's work. It is a place where they can invite their friends and family to see what they have done and celebrate their work.
"The Pocket Gallery" seeks to represent a space that belongs to those that created it, underlining the connection between the artwork and the origins of its production. A melange of imagination and hard work. It is the mascot of the time well spent getting to know, enjoy, learn and understand what we could of these children and the quality and potential of creative exchange.
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