Other Other Other identified, examined, and celebrated otherness through collaborative sculptural and material exploration.
In the autumn term of 2015, Art School invited artists Rhona Byrne and Vanessa Donoso Lopez to work with students at Gaelscoil de hÍde and Scoil Mhuire in Roscommon over the course of two days. Vanessa Donoso Lopez looked at the idea of being a stranger in another country, creating links between Roscommon and Barcelona and exploring the work of the architect Antoni Gaudí with the students. This resulted in a delicate but touchable floor-based installation of ceramic tiles, incorporating natural forms sourced in Roscommon. Rhona and the students experimented with ideas of thresholds (doors and portals) and proxemics (personal and collective boundaries), creating a wearable sculpture for two people and a second sculpture for eleven.