Teen Culture Club is one of our programmes for young people, in which we work with second level schools and youth initiatives, on facilitating thoughtful and creatively stimulating encounters with our collection and exhibition programmes.
In the Teen Culture Club programme professional artists from our Hugh Lane Gallery Panel of Artists and Guides facilitate young people to have stimulating and creative encounters with art and our exhibition programme.
The format for Teen Culture Club can vary but it often involves each school working with two artists over two 1.5 hour sessions at the gallery. Each session includes a discussion on selected artworks on exhibition. This is done in a welcoming environment in which the young people are encouraged to express their own thoughts and observations on the works. They then engage in an artist-led workshop in our dedicated studio space, exploring some of the concepts and/or techniques and materials that they encountered in the artworks on display.
If you are a second-level school teacher, a student, a youth leader, a member of a youth group or a parent and are interested in taking part in Teen Culture Club please contact Education Curator Cleo Fagan on [email protected].
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Teen Culture Club 2025
In 2025, artists Michelle Hall, Claire Halpin, Sarah Ward and artist Brian Maguire himself explored the Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion exhibition with students from the following schools: St. Mary’s Killester; St Mary’s Secondary School, Glasnevin; Beneavins, Finglas; Holy Faith, Clontarf; and Stanhope Secondary School, Dublin 7.
In addition, St May’s Secondary School, Glasnevin did a workshop with artist Rema Hamid exploring cultural identity and self expression.
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Teen Culture Club 2024
In 2024, artist Sarah Ward worked with students from Holy Faith, Clontarf, exploring the exhibition MORE POWER TO YOU: Sarah Purser – A Force for Irish Art’.
Youthreach, Parnell Square and Donahies Community School joined us for a tour by artist Brian Maguire of his exhibition La Grande Illusion.
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Teen Culture Club 2023
In 2023 we worked with St. Mary’s, Glasnevin, exploring the work of artists Kathy Prendergast and John Beattie and St Michael’s, Finglas, exploring work by John Beattie.
We also worked on a special programme focused on Andy Warhol, ahead of our major show Andy Warhol Three Times Out October 2023 – January 2024. For this, we worked with Donahies Community School, Dublin 13 and St Patrick’s Cathedral School in Dublin 8 and artists Liliane Puthod, Michelle Hall, Tara Carroll and Helena Gouveia Monteiro.
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Warhol Teen Culture Club documentation film 2023
Ahead of the Andy Warhol Three Times Out exhibition (6 October 23 – 28 January 24), this special pre-exhibition project took place with 4th and 5th Year students from Donahies Community School, Dublin 13, and St Patrick’s Cathedral Grammar School in Dublin 8. Between March and May 2023, artists Liliane Puthod, Michelle Hall, Tara Carroll and Helena Gouveia Monteiro worked with the students, in their own classrooms and in the gallery, to creatively explore the work of artist Andy Warhol and related themes and artists, through discussion and artistic activity. In the autumn of 2023, the students returned to the gallery, to visit the Andy Warhol Three Times Out exhibition, having already given time and consideration to his enduring and iconic work.
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Teen Culture Club 2022
In 2022, we worked with St Michael’s Secondary School, Finglas, Loreto College, Crumlin, Sandymount Educate Together and Drimnagh Castle, Walkinstown; and artists Megan Scott, Kimberly Griffith, Michelle Hall, Helena Gouveia Monteiro and Janine Davidson. The programme included discursive and artistic explorations of the following: works by Niamh McCann in The Tableaux Vivants exhibition, the Francis Bacon studio, The Map by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon, works by Eleanor McCaughey and Amanda Doran in the Bones in the Attic exhibition and work by Patrick Graham in his solo exhibition. With the programme for Loreto Crumlin, we partnered with Fighting Words, who did a third session in November in their own classroom exploring feminist themes through the work of artist Alice Maher with writer Michelle Walshe and artist Megan Scott, connecting with their previous workshops in the gallery looking at the Bones in the Attic exhibition and The Map.
11 December 2024 – Artist Brian Maguire giving a tour to students from Donahies Community School of his exhibition La Grande Illusion.
5 March 2025 – In this workshop with artist Rema Hamid and student from St Mary’s. Glasnevin the group explored the work of artist Brian Maguire and considered the act of ‘recording’ using collage and writing.
28 February 25 – In this workshop artist Claire Halpin introduced the work of Brian Maguire – artist and Human rights activist. Through a tour of the exhibition, they reflected on the themes of human rights and social injustice through discussion. They explored the themes through a practical artmaking collage, paint and text workshop, considering the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
28 February 25 – In this workshop artist Claire Halpin introduced the work of Brian Maguire – artist and Human rights activist. Through a tour of the exhibition, they reflected on the themes of human rights and social injustice through discussion. They explored the themes through a practical artmaking collage, paint and text workshop, considering the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
15 May 2025 – Artist Michelle Hall looked at the Brian Maguire exhibition with a 6th year art class from Stanhope Secondary School. Inspired by themes of activism within his work, the group were led in an activity looking at quilting and fabric based art and how these techniques are used to raise awareness of social issues in collaborative ways.
During this Teen Culture Club with students from Loreto Crumlin, artist Michelle Hall worked with a 4th year group to explore the vibrant work of artists Amanda Doran and Eleanor McCaughey from the Bones in the Attic exhibition.
During this Teen Culture Club with students from Loreto Crumlin, artist Michelle Hall worked with a 4th year group to explore the vibrant work of artists Amanda Doran and Eleanor McCaughey from the Bones in the Attic exhibition, 2022.
Teen Culture Club, with St Michael’s Secondary School, Finglas; working with artist Helena Gouveia Monteiro, looking at the Tableaux Vivants exhibition, 2022.
Teen Culture Club, with St Michael’s Secondary School, Finglas; working with artist Helena Gouveia Monteiro.
The students created a collage from printed poster size reproductions of paintings from the Hugh Lane Collection. Each student was given a different art work as a base for the activity.
….We explored the concept of collage as well as different techniques such as cutting-out, adding, replacing, transforming, tearing, or displacing.
Artist Liliane Puthod at Donahies Community School, exploring the work of Andy Warhol and other artists whose work referenced aspirational culture and consumerism, 15 March 2023
Work by student created in workshop with Liliane Puthod at Donahies Community School. Students created posters inspired by the work of Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Barbara Kruger and Liliane Puthod; as well as by looking at the repetition of words in Aldi and Lidl catalogues
Work by student created in workshop with Liliane Puthod at Donahies Community School.
