This year’s Bealtaine tour and workshop series at the Crawford Art Gallery takes the theme of ‘Black and White’ and will look at a diverse range of artists and artworks, as well as, giving visitors the chance to discover or hone their own artistic talent. The two-hour weekly sessions will run over four consecutive Thursdays in May from 2-4pm., and will be led by Julie Forrester (artist) and Michael Waldron (art historian).
                                     

1. All sessions are completely free of charge
2. All materials / tea and coffee are provided
3. Booking is essential and places are limited to 15
4. Programme outline overleaf

To book a place contact: 

Education Officer
Anne Boddaert
+353 (0)21 490 7862
anneboddaert@crawfordartgallery.ie

Emma Klemencic
+353 (0)21 490 7857
emmaklemencic@crawfordartgallery.ie

The exhibition VISIBLE POETRY Samuel Palmer runs until 14 June 2014, curated by Anne Boddaert and Edward Twohig.

Week 1 (Thursday 1st May): ‘Casting’ (2-4pm)
Arriving in Cork in 1818, the so-called ‘Canova Casts’ now form the basis of the Crawford collection. The talk will discuss the impact of these sculptural works on one of the Cork School of Art’s first students, John Hogan, and his Hibernia and Brian Boroimhe (1855) in the context of 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf. The workshop will focus on drawing in the Sculpture Gallery, we will be guided by the pure blank benefit of classical human form as presented by the unreal white of the plaster casts.

Week 2 (Thursday 8th May): ‘Illustrating’ (2-4pm)
The Crawford houses a unique collection of water-colours and stained glass by the celebrated and beloved Irish artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). The talk will focus on the artist’s illustrations for the stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), including the finely detailed pen and ink drawings of “Ligeia” and “The Pit and the Pendulum” (1919). The workshop will focus on drawing with pen and ink, building detail and tonal interest using only black line on white ground.

Week 3 (Thursday 15th May): ‘Silhouetting’ (2-4pm)
The Art of the Silhouette in 19th Century Cork exhibition explores the work of Augustin Edouart (1789-1861) and Stephen O’Driscoll (c.1825-1895) and the taste and humour of nineteenth-century Cork society. The talk will focus on the two artists and their use of the silhouette to depict such notable families as the Crawfords. The workshop will focus on the theatrical, shadows and projections, cutting form from silhouettes in a ‘black box’ space.

Week 4 (Thursday 22nd May): ‘Printing’ (2-4pm)
For Samuel Palmer (1805-1881), one of the key figures of English Romanticism, the charm of etching was in “the glimmering through of the paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggests sparkle.” Following a tour of the Visible Poetry exhibition which showcases the complete etchings of Samuel Palmer, the workshop will focus on scratching and wiping, the process of dry-point etching, creating and printing a plate from 'scratch'