The Harry Clarke Project
01st September 2006
to 30th April 2009
THE HARRY CLARKE PROJECT September 2006 - May 2009
Awarded a Certificate of Merit in the Ombudsman for Children and Young People's Connecting Communities Awards 2009.
The idea of the Harry Clarke project was initiated in September 2006 when Larkin Community College contacted the gallery regarding a project that would encompass their Civic Social and Political Education Curriculum. Harry Clarke’s The Eve of St Agnes readily leant itself to being reinterpreted through a variety of art forms: visual arts, theatre, literature and dance, and seemed an ideal piece to use to animate the gallery's collection. From 2006 to early 2009 the students took part in a series of workshops in visual arts, play-making and dance.
Visual Arts
A) Students worked closely with the school’s Artist in Residence, Jole Bortoli, to create original designs for costumes, set and props in response to the work of Harry Clarke.
B) Poetry Ireland and Creative Engagement funded a comic book project facilitated by Oisin McGann. Students retold the story of the Eve of St Agnes set in contemporary Dublin.
Play making and Dance
A) Students worked with John Dunne, teacher from Larkin, to devise a version of the Eve of St. Agnes’ story. Dance Ireland engaged Michelle Cahill to choreograph the final piece.
B) Students reinterpreted the Eve of St. Agnes’ story to take part in a drug and crime prevention initiative in the Waterfront Hall, Belfast: the Rock Challenge.
On the 20th January 2008, the students performed the play with music in Dublin City Gallery Hugh Lane. A free performance was held on Wednesday 23rd January for local primary schools.
An exhibition of the artworks, costume designs and the comic strips created by the Visual Arts group at Larkin with the students and the schools Artist in Residence, Jole Bortoli was held in the Gallery from January to May 2009.
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