For his Guest Editorship in June-July, Mark O’Brien has interviewed artist Orla Kelly about her work with children and young people and the research she is developing into arts practice with early years children.
Orla Kelly is a visual artist and creative educationalist. Her own education includes a diploma in psychology, a degree in fine art and a masters in arts management. She has worked with children for over a decade creating work in Dublin, and mainland Europe, with and without a common spoken tongue, using creative understanding to collaboratively make things. Her work with children aims to explore a naturally intelligent and free imagination, where real creation is almost always an intelligent action, done with concentration and joy to understand the world and to affect our relationship with it.
Mark and Orla discuss the big issues of process and product; authenticity; compromise; aesthetic and what the supports are that artists need. CLICK HERE to listen to their discussion...
