Playing with Abstraction (Secondary School)

For: 1st - 6th Year
Times: 9:30am & 11:30am 
Duration: 90mins  
Price: Free, booking required 

For all queries and bookings email Deirdre: deirdre.rogers@solsticeartscentre.ie 

This is a school workshop. 

Guided by local exhibiting artist Lesley-Ann O’Connell, students will experiment with abstraction and reconstruction to create multi-layered, colourful and dynamic imagery. Exploring the artist’s processes, such as mark making, collage and material dissection, while surrounded by artworks in the gallery, this experimental workshop will apply the elements of art and principles of design. Challenging students to unravel possibilities of process and media, composition and layout, they will experience and engage through critical thinking and decision making that is intuitive and fluid while creating a work of art. 

This workshop links to the Visual Studies Content Area 3 - Today’s World.

Lesley-Ann O’Connell is an artist living and working in County Meath. Graduating with a Bachelors and a Masters in Fine Art Painting from NCAD in 2008 and 2014, O’Connell is represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and completed her first residency with Joya: arte + ecología / AiR, Almeria, Spain (2023).

Participating in group shows since 2008, solo-exhibitions include Yellow, Pink and Blue Horizon (2022) and Midnight Swim (2019), Kevin Kavanagh Gallery; Surface in Motion (2015), Pallas Projects/Studios.