I had opportunities to combine academic achievements and working experiences in residencies at Lithuania, Norway, Canada, Sweden, Iceland and Ireland. Arts in schools and creative approaches:
Since 2015 I am running my own after-school Art & Design classes. I teach pupils from junior infants to six grades also children and adults with special needs. Different abilities challenge me to develop tas
ks according children’s development, talents, emotions. So far, I have created a strong network of followers, which gives me an opportunity to comprehend children, to build and grow their personal progress and achievements. During my classes pupils work on smart techniques, wide range innovative materials, master their skills by creating beautiful products, pictures or working on own confidence. Children/adults with special needs have a possibility to express themselves and experience benefit of art therapy. I have worked with Kerry Parents and Friends Association, Ascend Learning & Behaviour Support Centre, Young People with Special Needs Committee. As I am open for any kind of art I am trying to instil, teach improvisation, diversity, thinking outside the box, to reflect over children and to share with professional colleagues and educators in common life stage. Arts and creative facilitation:
I have exhibited four projects in our community dedicated for children. First one ‘Celebrity in a Temptation Island’, 2016 was a contemporary interpretation of ‘Noah Ship’ presented in Killarney Library. Second – to honour our Guardians, Grandparents. This project was granted for bursary Award ‘Artist in School’, 2016 from Kerry Co. I have done research about children’s perceptions towards aging, the elderly, and bonds of relationship. The outcome I presented in illustrated graphic design exhibition in the Church of Resurrection of Killarney, Saint Oliver’s National School and in the Residency ‘ArtsIceland’, Isafjordur, Iceland, 2017. I have also delivered workshops for children to celebrate National Drawing Day, organized by
Muckross House, Killarney. I have performed family orientated programme. In
2018 in Bank of Ireland I held an exhibition ‘Big steps’ with children’s drawings of adult shoes. And
2019 in Bank of Ireland first photo exhibition - ‘Living in a bubble’, where happy emotions of children were highlighted in giant bubbles.
