The Butler Project

Hanging out in the room used for the third performance

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Watching the film of the third performance

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This was the only talk Declan did during his exhibition!

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The group tried to figure out what the different symbols in the exhibition meant

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Watching the film of the performance with the skaters

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Hearing about what happened during the first performance

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what i hope to achieve tomorrow - by Niamh Phelan

Well. . . . . . hmmm i have no idea how to start but, here i go.

What does it say to me?

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Thinking about what we have done and where we are going...

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Before viewing the exhibition

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Deep in conversation in the last room of the show

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Getting up close to Nickerson's image of a bride to be

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First moments in the Nickerson exhibition - someone has a camera with them!

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Getting ready for the Jackie Nickerson interview

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Making our notebooks

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A closer look...

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Very different to the last exhibition!

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Viewing the Aideen Barry interview

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Preparing the notebooks that we take round the Gallery

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Ways of looking at the Butler Gallery

The Butler Gallery's Solas programme has been offering a programme for children between the ages of 5 - 12 to look at, talk about and respond practically to exhibitions at the Gallery including its Permanent Collection over its 10 years of existence.

A major way we are marking this is by working with Kids' Own and children who have experienced the Solas programme, to capture the learning that takes place in the Gallery and widen this out to a broader audience by developing a tool for looking at art (in particular modern and contemporary art!) in galleries and museums.

more listening

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I have more video to upload from the interview, for our next meeting we will be interviewing the photographer Jackie Nickerson, We will also have a chance to review what is emerging so far. I would like to look at some other publications by other galleries, to get an idea where our book would fit in. it will also give us a chance to look at what we like and what we don't like.
if you have any other ideas or thoughts about what should be included in our book, put them here.

Tour with George

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The books that we make at the start of each workshop works really well. i want to scan some of our responses in so we can see how they can be used.

George Vaughan Second interview

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Painter, George Vaughan was the second artist on our list, I think its is really interesting what we will have learned from meeting and talking with all the artists at the end of this process.

cleaning products

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Genius!

thank you

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Jean came up with idea to thank Aideen for talking with us, the children came up with the idea to give Aideen a duster and cleaning products, which i think she loved!!

Zero Gravity

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Can you remember what this was about?

Documenting

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Alan and Clara were our sound and video engineers. they were on the ball capturing all the detail and process.

40 thousand times

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Aideen talked through her creative process with children, going in to detail about how she creates the work. Talking out her love hate relationship with house work and how many times she jumped up and down to make this video piece.

The tour

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Aideen showing us around her work.

Aideen Barry

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The first interview was with the artist, Aideen Barry, the children and Kids' Own worked together over a weekend. On the Saturday we worked together to explore the work for urselves and to come up with questions that we wanted to ask Aideen.
We made book at the start in order for us to capture our thoughts as we went along.