Art As Exchange (AAEX), a collective of almost 40 local artists supported by Creative Spark, continued their programme of developing creative collaborations with other community groups this year with a project engaging young mothers and toddlers at the Craobh Rua community centre.
Over several weeks, artists Jennifer Slater, Úna Curley, Susan Farrelly and Caoimhe O Dwyer guided the mothers and their children in art-making activities across a range of disciplines including print, performance, textiles, photography, sound and music. The original ideawas broadly inspired by the assemblage work of Joseph Cornell, who created three dimensional sculptural boxes, a kind of 3d story or narrative art piece, explains artist and art therapist Jennifer Slater.