Our Lady's Secondary School -Fin O’ Hara, art teacher in Our Lady’s, had the privilege of assisting our Transition Year students with the “Lions Club Mural”. As a group we thought long and hard on what might we do with this eight by four foot sheet of timber. In the end we took the decision of doing a continuous line of drawing and in order to do this we cut the sheet in two, thus creating a sixteen by two. two foot by sixteen. I challenged the students to find as many images on their phones as they could within five minutes. As the students found the images, I responded by drawing them in one continuous line never lifting the pen. The students then followed me with black paint for the outline. We then turned the picture upside down and randomly filled in spaces with vibrant colours. The thinking behind the piece is to challenge the viewer to identify images hidden within the work. By doing this we are encouraging the viewer to slow down as they enter a place which is designed to slow people down.placeholder image
Our Lady's Secondary School -Fin O’ Hara, art teacher in Our Lady’s, had the privilege of assisting our Transition Year students with the “Lions Club Mural”. As a group we thought long and hard on what might we do with this eight by four foot sheet of timber. In the end we took the decision of doing a continuous line of drawing and in order to do this we cut the sheet in two, thus creating a sixteen by two. two foot by sixteen. I challenged the students to find as many images on their phones as they could within five minutes. As the students found the images, I responded by drawing them in one continuous line never lifting the pen. The students then followed me with black paint for the outline. We then turned the picture upside down and randomly filled in spaces with vibrant colours. The thinking behind the piece is to challenge the viewer to identify images hidden within the work. By doing this we are encouraging the viewer to slow down as they enter a place which is designed to slow people down.

Templemore Lions Club Mural Project proves a huge success

By Reporter
Published 15th Apr 2022, 11:47 GMT

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St Colmcille's National School - ‘Oh the places you will go’ Dr. Seuss Our mural is not only inspired by Dr. Seuss but by our own school and the journey that each child goes on from the moment they enter in 1st class until they leave us in 6th class. The base of our mural is the top of our own school building where this journey begins. Through visiting and connecting with our locality our students learn so much more about the history of our beautiful town, church and park, flora and fauna, minibeasts, map reading etc. Through this journey they achieve a great sense of belonging and pride. We have included each element of our crest into our mural which represents our many talents such as reading, sport, music and art. We are very lucky to be part of a town which develops these talents further. Through reading and discussion our students go on an imaginative journey to further corners of the world, visiting the round towers of Ireland, the pyramids of Egypt and the Eiffel tower of France. Our mural reminds us all that we have so much to be grateful for, not just in our beautiful locality but in the world all around us. It also reminds us that no matter where we travel or visit on our journeys there is no place like home. Returning to normality in our community, the sun and sunflower in our mural represents brightness and positivity for the future of all who spend time in our town and surroundings. We are so proud of all of our students who worked on this project. We would also like to express our thanks to our past pupil Roy Doran for sharing his amazing talents since he began his journey with us. We appreciate all his guidance, patience and hard work on this project. He is truly an inspiration for all our students. We would like to thank Saoirse Faherty a TY student from Our Lady’s who also was willing to share her talents with us to complete this project. We are so grateful for the Lions club for giving us this opportunity to share our talents.

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St Colmcille's National School - ‘Oh the places you will go’ Dr. Seuss Our mural is not only inspired by Dr. Seuss but by our own school and the journey that each child goes on from the moment they enter in 1st class until they leave us in 6th class. The base of our mural is the top of our own school building where this journey begins. Through visiting and connecting with our locality our students learn so much more about the history of our beautiful town, church and park, flora and fauna, minibeasts, map reading etc. Through this journey they achieve a great sense of belonging and pride. We have included each element of our crest into our mural which represents our many talents such as reading, sport, music and art. We are very lucky to be part of a town which develops these talents further. Through reading and discussion our students go on an imaginative journey to further corners of the world, visiting the round towers of Ireland, the pyramids of Egypt and the Eiffel tower of France. Our mural reminds us all that we have so much to be grateful for, not just in our beautiful locality but in the world all around us. It also reminds us that no matter where we travel or visit on our journeys there is no place like home. Returning to normality in our community, the sun and sunflower in our mural represents brightness and positivity for the future of all who spend time in our town and surroundings. We are so proud of all of our students who worked on this project. We would also like to express our thanks to our past pupil Roy Doran for sharing his amazing talents since he began his journey with us. We appreciate all his guidance, patience and hard work on this project. He is truly an inspiration for all our students. We would like to thank Saoirse Faherty a TY student from Our Lady’s who also was willing to share her talents with us to complete this project. We are so grateful for the Lions club for giving us this opportunity to share our talents.

St Joseph's National School - We had a very busy week here in St. Joseph’s PS working on the Lions Club project. The 3rd & 4th class task was to add a splash of colour to our wonderful and most cherished town park. It was no surprise that they jumped at the challenge! With the help of Ms. N Ryan and Sinéad Stone they helped design and create this wonderful piece of art centred around the idea of dreams and wings. The girls were eager to add as much colour as possible to brighten the walkway and so the idea of vibrant feathers was the overall winner! They then had the task of creating a caption for our wings and so it went to a vote. We had some wonderful captions put forward but unfortunately there could only be one winner and that was Ella Breen with “Let your Dreams Be Your Wings”. Congratulations to both 3rd and 4th class on a magnificent piece of art that we hope will not only brighten the town but also brighten the day of those who pass.

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St Joseph's National School - We had a very busy week here in St. Joseph’s PS working on the Lions Club project. The 3rd & 4th class task was to add a splash of colour to our wonderful and most cherished town park. It was no surprise that they jumped at the challenge! With the help of Ms. N Ryan and Sinéad Stone they helped design and create this wonderful piece of art centred around the idea of dreams and wings. The girls were eager to add as much colour as possible to brighten the walkway and so the idea of vibrant feathers was the overall winner! They then had the task of creating a caption for our wings and so it went to a vote. We had some wonderful captions put forward but unfortunately there could only be one winner and that was Ella Breen with “Let your Dreams Be Your Wings”. Congratulations to both 3rd and 4th class on a magnificent piece of art that we hope will not only brighten the town but also brighten the day of those who pass.

ST Mary's National School - All twenty four students at St. Mary's N.S. took part in this project. We brainstormed different ideas and with Ms. Duggan’s help, designed this colourful mural. We wanted it to be bright and cheerful and there are different messages portrayed within the piece. We all loved taking part in it. It took lots of time and effort but we really enjoyed working together as a whole school on this project. We can't wait to see it in its place with all the other murals.

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ST Mary's National School - All twenty four students at St. Mary's N.S. took part in this project. We brainstormed different ideas and with Ms. Duggan’s help, designed this colourful mural. We wanted it to be bright and cheerful and there are different messages portrayed within the piece. We all loved taking part in it. It took lots of time and effort but we really enjoyed working together as a whole school on this project. We can't wait to see it in its place with all the other murals.

Killea National School - We were thrilled to be contacted by Kathleen Collier and invited to participate in the wonderful project. Within days the timber frame was delivered to us and we set to work on brainstorming our ideas. Aisling Yates took ownership of the project and set about enthusing the children and encouraging a full school participation. The prefab became an artist’s hub and the creativity began. With lots of scope given to us in respect of the theme, it was amazing to hear all the ideas coming our way. Killea, the Devil’s Bit, the swans and the fountain in the park all came out as the top selections to be somehow included in our painting. Over the last two weeks, old clothes were brought to school daily and the buzz and excitement was palpable. The fun putting on the old painting clothes to escape to the prefab and be creative was fabulous. Great pride was taken with the inclusion of The Cross on top of our beautiful Devil’s Bit and also the choice of red and white to frame our painting as these are the colours of Killea N.S.

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Killea National School - We were thrilled to be contacted by Kathleen Collier and invited to participate in the wonderful project. Within days the timber frame was delivered to us and we set to work on brainstorming our ideas. Aisling Yates took ownership of the project and set about enthusing the children and encouraging a full school participation. The prefab became an artist’s hub and the creativity began. With lots of scope given to us in respect of the theme, it was amazing to hear all the ideas coming our way. Killea, the Devil’s Bit, the swans and the fountain in the park all came out as the top selections to be somehow included in our painting. Over the last two weeks, old clothes were brought to school daily and the buzz and excitement was palpable. The fun putting on the old painting clothes to escape to the prefab and be creative was fabulous. Great pride was taken with the inclusion of The Cross on top of our beautiful Devil’s Bit and also the choice of red and white to frame our painting as these are the colours of Killea N.S.

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