Untitled Document

28.02.07

A web-quality version of Three Dialogues, the video works collaboratively created by Glen Loughran and the youth group, is now up on the website to download. You can find it at the Image Gallery.

20.12.2006

Images of the exhibition and closing event for Hedge School 06 added here.

07.11.2006

In the following weeks, a further infomation and documentation of the concluding exhibition of the Hedge School project will be added to the site, providing more detailed infomation about the project. It is also our intention to provide versions of the video animations created for the project here soon. Watch this space.

14.10.2006

The final exhibition to conclude Hedge School 06 got under way last Saturday at 4pm at the field off Tullow street in Lieghlinbridge, where the project has been going on for the last six weeks. Opened by Carlow County Council, the exhibition comprised of a series of dialogues delivered through video animations created by the youth group and artist Glenn Loughran, presented alongside a selection of documentation and artworks from the extended education sessions. THe exhibition took place inside the Hedge School building itself, allowing intrigued local a final look inside the strange construction that has inhabited a corner of their village in recent weeks. In an adjacent marquee visitors were able to watch a documentary video of the construction of the Hedge school building, while enjoying refreshments and a special barbeque laid on for the project conclusion.

03.10.2006

On the 7th of October at 4pm in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, the Hedge School project concludes with a public exhibition and reception. Work completed by the young people and artist Glenn Loughran will be shown, alongside documentation of the project process and the construction of the Hedge School building itself. All are invited to attend. Directions to Leighlinbridge and the site can be found here.

30.09.2006

More updates to the image galleries of some of the art and dialogue education activities the group have been engaged in.

25.09.2006

The exhibition event that ends the Hedge School project will take place between 4 and 6 pm on Saturday 7th October at the Hedge School site. More information on this soon.

18.09.2006

A pack was dispatched to an MST school in Sao Paulo, Brazil last week, containing photographs and drawings of the Hedge School building and drawn portraits of the local youth group involved in the project here in Leighlinbridge. A selection of the art work sent over can be found in the image gallery. This forms the initiation of a creative exchange, the intention being that a group of young people in an MST camp in rural Brazil will reciprocate with a similar set of photographs and artwork.

15.09.2006

A set of drawings by the youth group involved in the Hedge School have been uploaded to the image gallery. These include drawings made durings the Hedge School build, documenting the process; and a series of portraits made using a process described by the artist as cloze drawing.

01.09.2006

Over the course of the last few days the Hedge School building was constructed on-site in Leighlinbridge through the combined efforts of the artist (Glenn Loughran), technical assistants (carpentry educator Michael Daley and Brandon McLane of Oracle Natural Building) and local support and volunteerism. From Friday 25th until Monday 28th of August, the communal building event just off Tullow Street attracted both volunteer builders of varying ages, and intrigued onlookers, passer-bys and motorists. Video documentation of the build will be screened at the exhibition on the 7th of October. Photographs of the build can be found here.

26.08.2006

The date of the final exhibition for Hedge School 06 has been brought forward a week, now happening on Saturday the 7th of October, not the 14th of October as advertised in some press. Details of the event will be confimed closer to the time.

14.08.2006

As the Hedge School 06 project gets actively underway, news, progress updates and information will be posted here. Until then background information on the project can be found elsewhere on the site. For any additional information, get in touch through the contact page.