Puppetry Workshop - Visual Art Series - ** UNIQUE TO IRELAND**

This is a beginner’s introductory course exploring puppetry. You will make a variety of different types of puppets, developing characterisation and using a wide range of craft and found materials. Explore ways to express puppets’ personality and character in the design, through making ‘facial’ features, costumes, traditional/ modern techniques, materials and a lot of imagination.

All basic & essential materials and equipment will be provided on the course, however participants should also start to collect any interesting found materials that they might like to incorporate. During the course participants may be asked to source ‘found’ materials.  While the workshop will allow ample time to complete the project, you may like to do some further work on your project at home as well, we would recommend also that participants bring with them a plain page notebook to keep ideas and personal notes. Suitable clothing should be worn; latex gloves will be provided as required.

Camilla Fanning - an Arts Council Award recipient, a member of the Courtyard Printmakers, ThreeRockArt, and a professional member of Visual Artists Ireland. Camilla Fanning is an Irish artist based in Dublin working primarily as a printmaker. Her chosen medium is etching on both copper and aluminum plates with an interest in innovative techniques.

A recurrent theme of her work is collective memory and shared imaginings. Currently she is working through a theme on shared remembered images of the Irish landscape.

Her work has been exhibited in New York and Dublin, was included in the 2008 Dun Laoghaire Visual Art Open, the 2009 Dunamaise Open, and most recently in several group exhibitions with etchings, life drawings and New Media.

** Special Offer**

Anyone who books a place on a course we will offer a 25% discount if they refer a friend. 
Refer four friends who book and you can come along for free.