Liz McMahon

Liz McMahon is a visual art facilitator and Forest School leader.

She graduated in Fine Art from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1981.

In 2018 she received Level 3 Forest School Leadership, Open Network College, Wast Midlands, U.K.

She moved to Co. Wicklow in 1986.

She was Children’s Programme Co-ordinator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art from 1991- 2000.

She has been working with children in and out of school on creative long-term programmes such as Mus-e created by Yehudi Menuhin, a three-year programme in primary schools, Mapping– a six-year programme with children in Bluebell Youth Project, Creativity in the Classroom – for twenty-seven years, she retired from being a facilitator in 2004 and continues to be on the steering group.

She has been facilitating Forest School on Killiney Hill with the students of Dalkey School Project for the past eleven years and continues to do.

She is currently on a team for ‘The Scaip Project’. The aim of this project is to use the experience of Forest School in Dalkey School Project to promote and support nature-based learning in primary schools.

Since 2006 through the Per Cent for Art Scheme and other commissions she has made large-scale works in collaboration with artist Fiona Coffey and the pupils in many schools across Ireland.