LUCY HILL: PAINT

VISUAL ART: GALLERY Friday 4th October - Saturday 9th November

Artist Lucy Hill has created something really exciting and different for our annual exhibition for young audiences. paint is an interactive, participatory, multimedia, multi-sensory exhibition of abstract painting. In short, an exhibition you can play with! With an array of opportunities to interact with the works, through looking, smelling, listening, drawing and playing with materials, this will be an exhibition you and your children will want to return to.

Reflecting the shifting focus in education towards ‘process' as much as ‘product', this exhibition exposes the artist's working methods alongside her paintings. This is not a didactic ‘how to paint' exercise, rather it aims to tackle the myth that a real piece of art is a form of perfection that appears by magic, and is made by especially gifted creatures. On the contrary, art making is connected to earthy and utterly human states and questions including messiness, pleasure, fun, persistence, procrastination, time, despair, frustration, joy, curiosity and obsession.

The exhibition also aims to draw attention to the phenomenon of ‘flow' (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1990), observing how readily children slip into deep involvement when they are fully engaged with creative materials, and how an artist's most satisfying work happens while in that same state of flow, how precious that state is and how delicate and difficult it can be to orchestrate. Come and explore!
Adm. free

Official opening on Friday 4th October at 7.30pm. All welcome

Supported by Mayo County Development Board and Inspiration Station

Lucy Hill will be facilitating paint-lab, a visual art workshop for children in conjunction with this exhibition.