touring experiment
SUMMARY
Mandscape was a national contemporary visual art touring initiative for children and young people, conceived and managed by The Ark, A Cultural Centre for Children. The Ark holds a visual art collection of over 150 art works by established Irish and international artists. With funding from the Arts Council’s Touring Experiment, The Ark saw the opportunity to create a project for children that would enable them to access and engage with the very best of contemporary visual art. This ground-breaking project linked four venues and a number of professional artists in a nationwide network to share methodologies and ideas about best practice for children and young people.
KEY ELEMENTS OF MANDSCAPE
The Exhibition
Curated by Martin Drury, Founding Director of The Ark, the exhibition comprised
ten original artworks by high profile Irish and international artists.
The artworks spanned a range of media, treatment and technique. The size
and number of artworks was designed to provide children with the space
to focus fully on each piece and to formulate their own responses.
The theme of the exhibition was ‘Mandscape’ (man + landscape) – curated with the understanding that each artwork represented a landscape where mankind was present or where mankind had left a trace.
The artworks in the exhibition were:
Brian Bourke – View from the Roosevelt Island Elevated Tram – Oil
on Canvas
Oliver Comerford – Campsite and North Star – (Diptych) Oil on
Wood
Daniel de Chenu – County Armagh, 1996 – Photograph (C Type Colour
Print)
Michael Durand – Jet Trail, 1, 2 & 3 – (Triptych) Perspex/Metal
Light Boxes/ Photograph
Martin Gale – The Sky is Falling – Oil on Canvas
Joy Gerrard – City of Bits – Etching
Nickie Hayden – My Strange Fruit – Mono Type
Clare Langan – Propeller – Super 8 Film and Filters
Brendan Neiland – Cumulus – Print
Barbara Rae – Venus Snow Path – Mono Print
