School Tours & Workshops at VISUAL Carlow

VISUAL Carlow
until 15th May 2025

School tours and art-making workshops are available to book for primary school students of all ages.

Each season at VISUAL Carlow, students explore the exhibitions through conversation, playful enquiry and making.

Using methodologies and materials inspired by their current exhibitions, students are invited to work together to create different landscapes.

Students will explore shadow-outlining inspired by Deirdre O’Mahony’s paintings, birds-eye views inspired by Carol Rhodes’ constructed landscapes, and pirate egalitarianism inspired by Dominique White’s sculptural installation, to imagine and make drawings collaboratively.

During the tour and workshops, students will practice…

• Looking together: Students will be introduced to the current exhibitions with collectively exploration of observations and ideas.
• Hands-on making: The group will be invited to imagine themselves as pirates, an inspiring mode of collectiveness where everyone’s voice is heard and everyone makes their mark. Working collaboratively as equals in groups of 5, they will imagine new landscapes. Each group will be given a unique set of materials (e.g. sticks and chalk, stones and string, graphite and pencil) for image-making. The groups will be invited to begin to shape their landscapes by tracing shadows of stones and shadows of their limbs on large scale paper. These shapes will stimulate ideas for the material, physical and architectural composition of their landscapes.
• Sharing: Each group will come up with a name for their landscape and a brief description of how it was formed and what life it supports and what stories it holds. They will present their work to each other and will reflect together on the processes used and stories generated.

Availability:

• Tuesdays (10am & 12noon)
• Wednesdays (10am & 12noon)
• Thursdays (12noon)

Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: €50
Capacity: A maximum of 30 students*
Supervision: Teachers are asked to remain present for the duration of the workshop.

*Looking to book more than one tour or a group larger than 30? This can be accommodated via several options. Please contact VISUAL to discuss what will be best for your classes needs. Email Arlene Caffrey at learning@visualcarlow.ie