Playing with Abstraction

Dates: Wed 5 Feb (2nd - 6th Class) | Fri 7 Feb (Secondary) 
Times: 9:30am & 11:30am 
Duration: 90mins  
Price: Free, booking required 

For all queries and bookings email Deirdre: deirdre.rogers@solsticeartscentre.ie 

This is a school workshop. 

Guided by local exhibiting artist Leslie-Ann O’Connell, pupils will experiment with spontaneity and reconstruction to create multi-layered, colourful and dynamic imagery. Following a tour of the gallery, Leslie-Ann will share her art making techniques, exploring the expressive possibilities of mark making, watercolour, collage and framing.

Playing with abstraction, pupils will experience and engage through critical thinking and decision making that is intuitive and fluid, connecting to self-expression, drawing, 2D construction, paint and colour while creating a work of art.

For secondary schools, this workshop links to the Visual Studies Content Area 3 - Today’s World.

Lesley-Ann O’Connell is an artist living and working in County Meath. Graduating with a Bachelors and a Masters in Fine Art Painting from NCAD in 2008 and 2014, O’Connell is represented by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and completed her first residency with Joya: arte + ecología / AiR, Almeria, Spain (2023).

Participating in group shows since 2008, solo-exhibitions include Yellow, Pink and Blue Horizon (2022) and Midnight Swim (2019), Kevin Kavanagh Gallery; Surface in Motion (2015), Pallas Projects/Studios.