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Thursday, 11 September 2008
My Space and I, an exhibition of selected works from the University College Cork collection, opened this past week at the West Cork Arts Centre.
The title of this exhibition makes reference to tangible and recognisable three-dimensional spaces, imaginative and personal spaces and places beyond the 3D realm such as cyberspace. Taken from a child’s perspective and beginning with the notion of self the exhibition explores a child’s relationship with the spaces in which they grow, learn and play, both familiar and unfamiliar, internal and external spaces.

WCAC’s Education & Community Coordinator, Justine Foster and Schools & Youth Coordinator, Alison Trim selected this exhibition with WCAC’s Primary schools classroom based programme in mind. The artworks were chosen from the perspective of the teacher and child as key viewers and the theme is intended to inspire and engage the young viewer. The selection includes works from Paul Seawright, Michael Gurhy, Ray Murphy, John Halpin, Alice Maher, Martin Healy, Pete Dobson, Donal Moloney, Pat Looby, Janet Mullarney, Andrew Boyle and Sarah Mulhall.

A large scale photograph by Paul Seawright starkly portrays a non-personal space, a waiting room lacking in comfort and ease, contrasting with Sarah Mulhall’s Bathroom, a colourful and familiar space where imagination and reality merge. In Pete Dobson’s Brain like a Spanner symbols of the mind at work are playfully illustrated showing the imagination as a space to play. The exhibition continues until Saturday, October 18 October.

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