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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

'RENDERING SPACE' | 1st Year Workshop


Mark Colgan

Etaoin Doyle 

Any given space is measurable and limited, but the possibilities of expression within that space are immeasurable and limit-less. This is the foundational basis of our ‘Rendering Space’ workshop. We take any given space, small or large - a room, a street, a building - and we produce a variety of individual representations and expressions of it and from it. The workshop explores how students visually interact with their immediate & familiar environment and express that limited space within given time restraints. The workshop is developed for 12-20 students, each closely negotiating the same space in a short allocated timeframe. On this first, experimental workshop the space is the familiar environment of the Studio/Classroom, the timeframe is 2 hrs. 

Ciara Keogh


Derek Lynch

Ciara Keogh

The teaching process is delivered as follows: A short lecture about issues of space and its expression - looking at how several artists have expressed the same space. This brief lecture prompts ideas & approaches, which open up the notion of how many diverse representations can be made within a very restricted environment. This is followed by the allocation of a single room, building or a small compact outdoor area. From within this room – this limited space - students are encouraged to express, in their own diverse style, the environment itself through the creation of three inter-connected images. While the workshop places physical, spacial, time constraints and supposed creative limitations on the student, as well as a degree of pressure to produce, it fully encourages them to rethink and negotiate the space in a new visual way. 


Aisling McCurtin

Lee Murray

Gemma Nicholson

Vicky Mooney

Etaoin Doyle

Holly Skelton

Rose Murphy

Vicky Mooney

Gemma Nicholson

Julia Delatowska

Rachel Coady

Richard Sheehan 

Etaoin Doyle

Rachel Brooks

Claire Daly