Projects - Abbey Art Studios Susan Farrelly

Stabannon School Creative Schools Programme

Outdoor art classes and provision of 4 video art workshops

Four art modules for each class stream, presented as step by step videos that can be accessed as required by teachers at the school. Supporting documents, material lists also provided for each activity. Activities are interchangeable between each class group with learning level modifications. 2 outdoor classes facilitating environmental art projects.

Abbey Art Studios Project Stabannon School 1

1: Clay Sculpture and Design

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Abbey Art Studios Project Stabannon School 2

2: Draw like Beatrix Potter

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Abbey Art Studios Project Stabannon School 3

3: Draw like Quentin Blake

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Abbey Art Studios Project Stabannon School 4

4: Spiral Relief Print

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Abbey Art Studios Project Stabannon School 5

5: Painting The Landscape of Louth

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Abbey Art Studios Project Stabannon School 6

6: Garden Totems

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Abbey Art Studios Project Stabannon School 7

7: Stained Glass Style Raised Beds

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AAEX Deehub

Collaborative art project for youth group scheduled 2021 [Online over Zoom due to Covid]

Youth Group Creative Arts Workshops

“This is Tomorrow” is a collaborative project between AAEX and Deehub, Ardee, which aims to foster creativity transfer skills and develop a homegrown culture through collaboration and participation in a series of 10 creative art workshops (Spring 2021) with professional AAEX artists Susan Farrelly, Michael Stafford and Niamh O’Connor.

It is an exploration of self, body, memory and landscape using art workshops provided to Youth Groups in the Mid-Louth area (rural), using painting, sewing, dying, drawing, printing and sculpture to connect with ideas about the theme relevant to the group.

It is intended to be a creative and social outlet for the group. Place-Making, as a hands-on approach for improving a neighbourhood, city or region, by inspiring people to collectively re-imagine and reinvent public spaces.

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AAEX Craobh Rua

Collaborative art project in the community for mothers & toddlers

“Little Inklings at Craobh Rua” is a collaborative project between AAEX and the Craobh Rua Community Centre, Dundalk, which aims to enhance the creative playfulness, overall wellbeing and relational bonding between infants and their caregivers through collaboration and participation in a series of 8 creative art workshops (April – June 2020) with professional artists from AAEX Jennifer Slater, Susan Farrelly, Caoimhe O’Dwyer and Úna Curley.

The project is kindly supported by