Contemporary Self-Portrait Project

CSP project focuses on individuals, local communities and different European regions ways of expressing their personal, local and European identities.

Thursday, 9th January - Friday, 31st January 2014


Cradle from the series Pellet by Sinead McDonald, CSP Project 2013

The Contemporary Self-Portrait project is a European partner project between Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland, The Estonian Academy of Arts Estonia, Bildmuseet Umeå Universitet Sweden, Association ISSP Latvia and the National College of Art and Design Dublin. Funded under the EU Culture Programme 2007-2013, the Contemporary Self-Portrait (CSP) project focuses on giving individuals, local communities and different European regions ways of expressing their personal, local and European identity through self-portraits.

The Contemporary Self Portrait exhibition in NCAD Gallery is a combination of work by the F2 Art Group from Rialto and young people from the Rialto Youth Project, NCAD 3rd year Fine Art Media Students and two students from the MA in Socially Engaged Art programme. Visiting artist Pia Bartsch worked with each of these groups to explore the theme of self-portraiture and monument. The F2 Art Group used a variety of mixed media and collage techniques and further extended their project investigations into the public domain in Rialto. In a series of workshops hosted at NCAD and the F2 art studio, the Fine Art Media students worked with young people from Rialto Youth Project to explore self-portraiture using a number of digital media techniques such as blue screen and Gif animation as well as comic book formats. The NCAD students also worked closely with artist Pia Bartsch to develop their individual responses to self-portraiture, which range from the appropriation of notions of monument to explorations of identity based on familial relationships and in relation to self and community.

The Contemporary Self Portrait project in Dublin takes place in the context of the developing partnerships between the National College of Art and Design and local community organizations Fatima Groups United and the Rialto Youth Project in Dublin 8. Project workshops were held at F2 Neighbourhood Centre, Rialto and the National College of Art and Design.   
 

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