The One & The Many

Times: 9:30am & 11:30am (90mins each) 
Price: Free, booking essential 
For: Primary school groups, 2nd - 6th class 
For all queries and bookings email Deirdre: deirdre.rogers@solsticeartscentre.ie 

How many images can be made from the one shape? 

Responding to artworks in our exhibition Of Peras and Apeiron, pupils will explore what happens when “rules” are placed on designs, that result in endless combinations. Using LEGO bricks and traditional print making techniques, visual artist Andrew Carson will encourage your class group to make work within the constraints of the LEGO system, where the only real limits are on your imagination. This workshop combines construction, design, print making, maths, geometry, and science with problem solving and critical thinking.

Andrew Carson is an artist, maker, and educator whose practice centre’s on exploring human connections through the lens of digital technology. His work investigates how social structures, systems, and communication methods are shaped by—and in turn shape—the use of digital devices and social media as our most common forms of contact.

Carson repeatedly returns to questions such as: How can we reconcile virtual and physical realities? Can we bridge the psychological distance inherent in digital interaction? His work is often installation-based, created in response to and in dialogue with specific spaces. As both a maker and educator, he engages with diverse materials and processes, including digital sound and image, printmaking, photography and paper engineering.