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Poetry Portraits: Invisible Becomes Visible

Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion

  • Talks & Art Courses

Saturdays 11
18 and 25 January 2025
1.45pm-4.15pm

Advance booking required via Eventbrite

Fee: €100

Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion

Responding to Brian Maguire’s exhibition La Grande Illusion 

Poetry Workshop for Adults

Invisible Becomes Visible

11, 18  and 25 January 2025, 1.45-4.15pm

Led by poet Grace Wilentz, three part series of workshops engaging with “La Grande Illusion”, a major exhibition of the work of Brian Maguire. In each workshop, participants will spend time with the exhibition, before being guided to write original poems in response to it.  Brian Maguire is an artist whose practice has been defined by sustained engagement with social justice and human rights. In this workshop, we will focus on how Maguire’s work in “La Grande Illusion” encounters climate justice, migration and making ‘the invisible become visible’. As Maguire says, art has the power to make ‘the invisible become visible’. We’ll explore what this means, with a focus on how your own creative practice might relate to serving the overlooked, omitted and forgotten. While no prior experience is necessary, all will be expected to participate actively in discussions and take part in writing exercises. In return, you can expect to come away with new poems, and discover fresh approaches to engaging with urgent social justice concerns in your own creative practice.

Fee: €100, advance booking via Eventbrite

Image: Grace Wilentz photographed by Siobhán Butler

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