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Visual Arts Practice I
Visual Arts Practice is an interdisciplinary programme, the students work across a broad range of media, transforming materials and ideas into contemporary artworks. The class of 2010 are a very cohesive group, they have taken huge creative risks together, developing and engaging with new ideas and materials.
The 2010 exhibition offers many themes, there are unusual materials interwoven with inner monologues, the immersive experiences of being in a "supermarket ", and the relationships between sound and colour, the phenomena of ATM digger robberies, domestic appliances becoming monsters, even the salvage of thousands of margarine tubs from a remote West Cork beach. There is a co-habitation of performance, painting, installation, video, sound, print, sculpture, and drawing in the 2010 exhibition, all at a very high standard. The Visual Arts Practice course educates students as artists, they leave us with a portfolio of artwork tested against the "real world" situations of contemporary practice. This year many of the students have won awards and exhibited across Ireland. They have also taken part in programmes and internships with many external cultural partners.