Gallery Learning Programme 2023
Rekindle
This year we set out to re-organise how we think about our links with people. To rekindle is to re-ignite a spark, but also to excite. The programme planned for 2023 hopes to do both!
With all formal COVID-related restrictions removed, we will have many more in-person activities, but to allow those who cannot arrive at the gallery still enjoy and learn about art, there will still be an online programme, both on our social media channels and in other ways.
We’ll continue having events at the gallery to help connect with the exhibition programme and added to it is our new podcast 'Sparking Thoughts'. We’re delighted to have writer and curator Diana Bamimeke create this 4-episode podcast about art, that will include an interview with the artists showing at the gallery.
On social media, we invite you to look for our new hashtag #dlrIntoArt that will be active throughout the year. We’ve invited great artists to share some “behind the scenes” photos and videos about their processes. We invite you, our curious-creative online audience, to use this in-depth look into artists’ work and rekindle your own creativity. Join in and use the hashtag to respond to the artists’ projects.
We’re happy to also continue our Library Interventions programme, and connect artists with our 4th floor library goers, show their work and share their reading list. Keep an eye out for some new artwork starting March!
Alongside these, there will be engagements for children, young people, and adults. We hope to do more than rekindle creativity, but to remind ourselves that art can spark hope and be a way to express ourselves about the climate, about society, and about who we are in our world.
There are some fantastic artists’ workshops planned throughout the year, so check back for new additions to the creative calendar and sign up for the Newsletter to be the first to book your ticket and take part.
*Banner image is by the artist Annie Laing.
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The 2023 programme is organised by our Gallery Learning Programme Co-ordinator, Moran Been-noon. Moran is a Dublin-based independent curator and visual artist. As a curator she is primarily interested in multi-platform group exhibitions. Her current focus is on feminist artwork created on the spectrum between contemporary art practice, and traditionally feminine creative crafts. Moran is also a co-initiator of angelica.network, an Ireland-wide network which amplifies the voices of artists based on the island of Ireland who self-identify as women or minority genders, from underrepresented cultural or ethnic backgrounds. More details at MoranB.art