BANG BANG, POP
BANG BANG, POP is a collaborative, multi-part project that will explore sound and the sonic environment of Clondalkin from a young child’s perspective. The project is built on the importance of deep listening, a practice or process of spending time in a location or place to encourage participants to get a deeper understanding of their connection and relationship to their surroundings.
This process will allow children to discover new and interesting ways of connecting to their environment and offers the opportunity to consider how sound informs the perception of public space. David Beattie, Fuchsia MacAree and Anne Bradley will develop innovative and unique ways for children aged 3-6 to engage with their locality in Clondalkin, to define and redefine their sense of place, in their own home, street, area or village.
A key aspect of this process is to create opportunities to experience the unfamiliar in a locality, to be in control of how you navigate your local surroundings. This will be achieved through multiple workshops, each with a different focus and approach. The objective of the workshops is to get a clear sense or understanding of the sonic landscape of Clondalkin from a child’s perspective and how this might be represented through oral, written and visual language for a wider audience.
David, Anne and Fuchsia are working with children from schools and creches in the Clondalkin area, including Honeybears Creche, Quarryvale, Little Gems Childcare, St. Johns National School, Gaelscoil na Camóige and Brightsparks Creche.
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David Beattie Biography
David Beattie is an artist and lecturer in Art and Research Collaboration at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology and TU Dublin, Ireland. Beattie’s artistic practice explores the material world through experiential, physical engagements with objects and non-objects. Recent projects have focused on the social and environmental impact of digital technologies, agroecology and the politics of listening, psychoacoustics and the communal listening experience. He was awarded the Harpo Foundation Award in 2010 and was a recipient of the Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA collection, 2016.
Beattie has been commissioned to produce a number of temporary and permanent public artworks including VOID Commissions, Derry (2021/22), Reflectors, Bray, Co.Wicklow and Patterns of Illumination, Griffith Barracks Multi-denominational School, Dublin. Exhibitions include The Glucksman (2019), Berlin Opticians (2018+2019) TULCA Art Festival, Galway (2017), CCA Derry-Londonderry (2017), Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017+2013), Rubicon Projects, Brussels (2013) All Humans Do, The Model Sligo and Whitebox, New York (2012), The Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh (2010), Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2010). Current work includes Future Light from Distant Stars, the focal point of which is a large greenhouse which is utilised as a growing environment, a meeting place, and a workshop space. www.visualcarlow.ie/whats-on/david-beattie
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Anne Bradley Biography
Anne Bradley is a primary school teacher and has worked in Rathfarnham Educate Together National School since 2006. She studied fine art sculpture at NCAD from 1997-2001 and completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Education at Marino Institute of Education in 2003. Her thesis, The Classroom as Studio, written for her M.A. in Visual Arts Education NCAD in 2012, explores the many relationships between art practice and education. The Reggio Emilia approach to preschool education with its focus on the artist as a key educator influences her work.
Anne is an experienced art educator and has designed and facilitated professional development courses for primary teachers to explore current art practice in the classroom.
In 2019 Anne designed The Make Space, a multi-sensory interactive response room for children as part of Elemental, a sculptural exhibition for children. The work was exhibited in Uillinn, Skibbereen, in VISUAL, Carlow and at Draíocht as part of the Fingal Arts Cruinniú na nÓg programme June 2022. In 2021 Anne collaborated with artist Louis Haugh to develop and facilitate a series of workshops ‘If Trees Could Talk’, for a primary school in Portmarnock.
Fuchsia MacAree Biography
Fuchsia MacAree is an artist and illustrator based in Co. Clare. She makes character-based illustrations. Her work highlights quiet moments of contemplation, details in nature and observations from everyday Irish life, and uses simplified perspectives and a distinctive colour palette. She received a BDes in Visual Communication in NCAD in 2011, followed by an MA in Illustration in Camberwell in London in 2012. Her outputs include prints, sculptures, murals, books and textiles. In 2018 she illustrated the bestselling and award-winning Great Irish Weather Book with Gill Books. She has exhibited and been published worldwide.