Walkinstown association in IMMA (Images)

After applying to the “Focus on…” Community and Education Program at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, I have been taking the art group in WALK to a weekly art session there. This is turning out to be a really satisfying and enriching experience for all of us. Together with Artist Stepanie Joice and Artist/ Museum Mediator Stephen Tailor, we are taking the group through weekly tours of the current IMMA exhibitions and art sessions at spacious and generously equipped studio 10 in the Museum grounds.

Stephanie is recording the whole series of six sessions photographically. She will put this record on CD and will give one back to WALK at the completion of the project.

The participants are creating a large mixed media piece in response to the work in the galleries, and stephen and myself have given short presentations of our artwork to the group.

WALK service users met Mary last week. She is the head gardener of the amazing French formal gardens in the Museum grounds, Mary was full of stories and gifts of flowers and apples , which the group sampled with great delight.

In the next two remaining weeks they will meet artists in residence in IMMA, after which we will bring the collective art piece back home to be displayed in WALK.

Everyone in Walk has been extremely supportive, especially Brian, our driver/group entertainer, who has made every trip a lot of fun. So thank you IMMA and WALK art group! I look forward to publish the images in this space.

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