Arts + Health

Detail from A New Earth by Paul McCloskey

Artist Paul McCloskey in his studio, 2024

Paul McCloskey

Based in County Wexford, Paul McCloskey is originally from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. Involved in visual art education for over 30 years, Paul attended the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and De Montfort University in the UK, where he received his Master’s Degree in Fine Art in 2010.

Paul has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, throughout the UK, Europe and the US. His work is held in many private and public collections including the Office of Public Works State Art Collection, the Osten Art Collection, the Gallery of Drawing Macedonia, Monaghan and Wexford County Council art collections, Ulster Hospital Belfast and RTE.

He was the 2016 recipient of the international jury’s Special Award at the Osten Biennial of Drawing/Works on Paper in Skopje, Macedonia, and five of his works are now in the permanent World Gallery of Drawing Collection of the Museum of Drawing/Works on Paper. In 2018, Paul was shortlisted for the London Contemporary Art Award and was awarded the Materials Bursary Award.

Helium Arts

Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency.

www.helium.ie

Helium Arts

Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency.

www.helium.ie

Helium Arts

Helium Arts is the national children’s arts and health charity, developing the creativity of children living with lifelong physical conditions through the arts to support their wellbeing including social connections, self-esteem, and sense of agency.

www.helium.ie

Sites of Significance

Radical Institute

Radical Institute is a Cork-based, transnational initiative that explores how the arts and cultural practice can promote and sustain radical social and ecological change to transform our social/political movements and create new worlds. They provide a nurturing environment for participants to unleash their imagination, experiment, learn, collaborate, organise – as well as develop new approaches, practices and tools for ecological, social and community transformations. They offer collective mentoring and training programmes for cultural practitioners, artists, architects, activists and collectives, including those at risk and/or marginalised — drawing from radical thought and praxis within art, architecture and community building, sustainable organising, as well as from cultural/critical/social ecological theory. Their methods are holistic, ecosystemic, feminist and collaborative.

Eve Olney

Dr Eve Olney is a socially engaged creative producer, mentor and independent practice-based researcher. Her praxis incorporates a social ecological ethnographic approach to social change through collaborative creative methodologies. She is a founding member of creative social working and learning scheme The Living Commons, and with Krini Kafiris. In 2023, they were awarded Erasmus+ funding that enabled 18 participants to travel to Ulex Projects in Barcelona, for trainings in sustainable activism. She co-founded Radical Institute with Dr Krini Kafiris and co-ran Studios of Sanctuary Artists’ Residencies in collaboration with Sample Studios / Radical Institute awarded by The Community Foundation for Ireland in 2022. She leads the Traveller Tenancy Participatory Programme for the Traveller Accommodation Unit (TAU), Cork City Council (funded by the Dormant Accounts Fund). She is a founding member of Cork Community Land Trust steering committee (CCLT).

Saolta Arts and Croí art workshops

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