Opening Reception Thursday 12 September at 12 noon

For this work artist Christine Mackey presented the opportunity to devise and realise an exhibition with children from St. Francis Xavier National School, using as a starting point an existing publication ‘A Year in the Field’ (commissioned by Fingal Arts Office public art programme 2011-2012). By facilitating an open model of engagement, the children were given the time and tools to explore their immediate environment of their school grounds and gardens including a field trip to the Phoenix Park with tree expert Noel O’Shea. Rather than devising a prescriptive set of activities the work developed with the children on a more participatory level, activating the invisible and imaginary in their physical environment and furthermore, the unfamiliar.