Christine Mackey

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.