Art Trip to the Regional Cultural Centre
FVC Art teachers Ms Molloy & Ms D Coll were delighted to get the opportunity to take their senior art classes to the RCC in Letterkenny on Wednesday 29th January 2025. A trip to a local gallery or centre is an important part of LC Art that we like to cover with senior students, to prepare them for the Leaving Certificate written element, content area 3: Today’s world. This area gives opportunity for students to learn about art and culture in their everyday lives through four sections of focus; Artists: Theory and Thinking, Artists: Processes and Media, Art as Social Commentary or Commentator and Art and the Environment. Also nurturing the skills of critical literacy and contextual inquiry to decode, decipher and make meaning from a range of art-led experiences that students can study locally.
Johnny Boyle – The Light on the Stones in the Rain (Gallery 2)
Johnny Boyle presents a series of new works inspired by the poetry of Francis Harvey.
Born in Glenties, County Donegal in 1951, Johnny has been making art from an early age. He spent two years at the Dun Laoghaire College of Art in the early 1970s but considers himself mainly self-taught. He started painting professionally in 1988 when he exhibited at The McGill Summer School in Glenties. His paintings are, almost exclusively, landscapes. He is always trying new ways of expressing his feelings for his surrounding area of West Donegal in various media. His paintings, especially his watercolours, are well regarded and sought after throughout the North of Ireland and in Donegal in particular, and can be found in private collections worldwide.Exhibition finishes on Saturday 1st March.
Jacinta Callaghan – Memories of Donegal: A Journey Through Landscapes (Foyer Gallery)
Jacinta Callaghan is an artist from Donegal, whose passion lies in capturing the beauty and spirit of this remarkable region through her artwork.We were so lucky to meet Jacinta Callaghan hen visiting her exhibition and she was able to explain the process of how an artist applies to have an exhibition in the RCC.
Student statements:
“I loved seeing how different artists interpret what they see. I barely get to travel and seeing other works sparks me with inspiration as well. It’ll definitely benefit me once the Leaving Cert comes by” Ciara Moss, 5th year student “I enjoyed going to the gallery in Letterkenny as it opened my eyes to the opportunities art has to give when you do Leaving Cert Art. It was especially inspiring that Jacinta callaghan is a self taught painter and that she had her own gallery and that she was selling her own paintings” Daithi Mangan, 5th year art student |
Video link capturing our trip: https://share.icloud.com/photos/0d519wwsvgh8dYc31WQuCoaP
