Competition time – win a caricature!

I was giving a workshop for the Drogheda Arts Festival on on satire and political cartooning at the weekend. These are some of the resultant pieces, which I think are brilliant! So, to the competition. Name the three public figures here and you can win an A3 colour caricature. All correct entries will be entered … Read more

Art Facilitation

I’ll be doing some facilitation with school groups in Oughterard on Monday. I should get some good images from it. I’m basically using cartoons to document the discussions. It’s usually fun.

Concern Workshops

Concern child labour workshops development education IrelandI’m planning a post later on the Concern development education workshops I facilitated around the country last month. I had a great bunch of Transition Year students in Galway, Dublin and Cork. This is an ongoing project aimed at raising awareness of global child exploitation. There are currently over 200 million children being used for labour in the world today.

Concern Workshop Tomorrow

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I’ll be giving a workshop to transition year students tomorrow on the issue of child labour. It’s a heavy issue, but I try to make it informative and with an emphasis on action (like many similar issues the sheer weight of it can be overwhelming). I’ll post more on it tomorrow, hopefully I’ll have some images ready as well.