School's Programme: IT'S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE

We are delighted to share images from our School's Programme workshops, forming part of the Public Programme for the exhibition IT'S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE. These workshops were devised and delivered by artist educator Sinéad Smyth. 

The school children had a tour of the exhibition. Picking up on the Lough Neagh water in the work of artist Sabi Nicholson, Sinéad read the children the The Legend of Lough Neagh, when according to Irish folklore, the vast lake of Lough Neagh was formed when Fionn Mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) grabbed a massive piece of earth to throw at a Scottish rival Bennandonner, creating a huge hole that filled with water. The chunk of earth that landed in the sea became the Isle of Man. Inspired by this story, the children drew images inspired by the story on a huge roll of paper. This paper was rolled and photographed next to the work of artist Lucy Tevlin. They then used these images to create shadow puppets to reenact the story for their class.