The Tack Room at the Red Stables is a process-based creative studio where families can explore contemporary art. Working with professional artists Fionnuala Hanahoe and Mary Noonan, children and their families will take part in imaginative projects that are offered in a relaxed and informal environment. There will be a different project every Saturday during July and August, using a variety of media and investigating diverse themes, participants can make their own work and gain insights into the working processes of artists at the Red Stables.
Fionnuala and Mary are both graduates from NCAD. Fionnuala has a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) and her practice is based in participative sculpture. Mary has a Masters in Fine Art (Painting) and creates work mainly in watercolour, drawing and sculpture/installation. Both have extensive experience in the design and facilitation of projects with diverse groups and are on Dublin City Councils Artists’ Panel.
For more info on the artists visit:
www.fionnualahanahoe.com and www.marynoonan.com
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The Tack Room Summer Programme 2011
Train Trip
In this collaborative family project based on the idea of a train trip a installation of a station, trains and tracks, were made using mainly recycled materials.
Face The Music
Parents and Children created a music festival installation. A camping village sprung to life while musicans gathered on stage.
Oh Deery Me! (Rose Festival Project)
Usually there are no deers in St. Annes Park! By making antlers famiies transformed themselves and populated the park with deer for the duration of the Rose Festival.
Grass Drawings
Taking the Tack Room outside, using recycled plastic materials in a new context children and their familes embarked on this outdoor drawing project. Together they experimented with shape, colour and line.
Wall Line Drawings
Gaining inspiration from Sol LeWitts Wall Drawings and by using basic line and shape participants developed and created a temporary installation on the Tack Room walls. Colour and line were brought together to create shape and form.
Family Portraits
Using the Tack Room walls as a canvas children together with their families created life-size protraits of themselves using coloured paper.
Window Dressing
Using sticky vinyl and scissors, Children and their families cut and shaped a site-specific installation on the large windows of the Red Stables foyer.
We Built This City!
Children and their families designed and built a mini city! Using recycled and art materials participants created buildings, green areas, shops and streets and all the good stuff about living in a city!
My Artists Studio
To gain an insight into the work practices of an artists studio Children created their own take-away studios, containing their own miniature artworks.
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Update
Some of the fun things made during the Animal Farm project…
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Animal Farm!
Free! Art Workshops for Easter at The Red Stables
12noon to 4pm, Saturday 16th and Friday and Saturday 22nd and 23rd April at The Tack Room, Red Stables Artists’ Studios
Dublin City Council Arts Office invites children and their families to transform the Tack Room at the Red Stables into a real Animal Farm! During these workshops families will be facilitated in the creation of their own 2D and 3D animals. Using a variety of recycled materials, make a porky pig, a mischievous mouse or your very own pretty pony!
Offered as part of The Tack Room’s 2011 family workshop programme, the Animal Farm project is facilitated by professional artists Mary Noonan and Fionnuala Hanahoe and will be run on a ‘drop-in’ basis. So why not pop by, get drawing, colouring and cutting, and see what Animals your imagination can dream up?!
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Last admittance at 3.45pm.
For more information:
www.theredstables.ie
www.redstablesartists.com
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The Tack Room at the Red Stables is a process-based creative studio where families can explore contemporary art. Working with professional artists Fionnuala Hanahoe and Mary Noonan, children and their families will take part in imaginative projects that are offered in a relaxed and informal environment. Using a variety of media and investigating diverse themes, participants can make their own work and gain insights into the working processes of artists at the Red Stables.
Fionnuala and Mary are both graduates from NCAD. Fionnuala has a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) and her practice is based in participative sculpture. Mary has a Masters in Fine Art (Painting) and creates work mainly in watercolour, drawing and sculpture/installation. Both have extensive experience in the design and facilitation of projects with diverse groups and are on Dublin City Councils Artists’ Panel.
Boating (28th August 2010)
This workshop responded to the park’s proximity to the sea. Children and their guardians were facilitated in constructing 3-D boats. Materials were kept to four items: cardboard, masking tape, colour paper and sticks. Children could then launch their boat on to a specially made ‘sea’ laid out on the Tack Room floor.
Make and Move Your Own Character (21st August 2010)
2D movable models or characters were made in this workshop. Participants were encouraged to design and make their own characters and were facilitated in the construction and assembly of them. The pieces were made from card and decorated using a variety of materials. Each child brought their individual piece home.
Frame It! (14th August 2010)
This workshop was an introduction to the concept of an exhibition. Children were given a variety of materials to create their own collage. They were made aware that this would then be ‘framed’ and exhibited in The Tack Room. They decorated the frames and sought out a position on the wall to show their work. The work was hung in a ‘salon’ style. This was a contemporary take on the traditional hang in a gallery.
Life on Mars (7th August 2010)
A development of last weeks theme. This time participants were encouraged to create life on Mars as they saw it, using the same materials as the week before.
Sculpture Park (31st July 2010)
This was a 3-D construction project whereby children used clay and matchsticks to respond to the concept of a sculpture park. Participants were encouraged to draw from their own experiences of St. Annes Park when making their work. A designated area in The Tack Room was laid out as the ‘park’ in which participants could place their own work. This could range from elaborate abstract constructions to more representational sculptures. We deliberately kept the variety of materials to a minimum so that participants really engaged with the possibilities of those materials.
Your Fantastic Imagination (24th July 2010)
In this project the children were given the opportunity to explore scale in relation to drawing. Two large walls in The Tack Room were covered in white sugar paper giving the children a blank canvas on which to work. A piece of compressed charcoal was attached to the end of a stick of bamboo. The sticks varied in length. They were then given the challenge of drawing with the bamboo sticks at a distance from the wall. Most children found this difficult initially but soon became more confident with the materials. As the day progressed the collaborative drawing developed and evolved. Each child was also given a section of one wall to do an individual piece of work.
Gardener’s World (3rd and 10th July 2010)
A project over two Saturdays where the children created their work using a variety of materials. They then attached it to a wall which represented their idea of a garden. At fairly regular intervals photographs were taken of the wall. Each child was made aware that the images taken would eventually be made into an animation. The finished animation was then posted to The Red Stables website.
Gardeners’ World Animation from The Tack Room on Vimeo.
For more information on the artists visit:
www.fionnualahanahoe.com and www.marynoonan.com
