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As a Community Arts Practitioner, Sharon's work is deeply embedded in the principles and values of community development. Her ethos is to promote, encourage and enable each individual to seek to find their own creative voice and to nurture and guide the individual in having that voice heard. Working with a wide range of people, adults, young people and children through the principles of community development, her practise supports and promotes inclusion, equality, recognition and respect of the value, abilities and potential of each individual.
- Watercolour / Acrylic /
Oil painting (beginners or intermediate)
- Mixed media workshops
- Art workshops designed around a specific theme, such as equality for women,
local community issues, empowering community
- Finding your creative voice
- Exploring and expressing emotion through art (Oils, Acrylic, Watercolours)
- Art and Craft sessions, classes and workshops
- Themed Art and Craft (seasonal)
- Collaborative Art Projects
- Art for relaxation & Mindfulness
- Art as Advocacy
- Collage workshops
- Fun and creativity with children and parents
- Creative Schools Projects
- Community Arts Practice
and Theory Foundation Level. Designed and delivered with Ethine Dunne Community
education tutor
- Wrap
Through Creativity Designed and delivered with Ethine Dunne Community education
tutor
Tallaght Community Arts DoubleTAKE Supported
Arts Studio
Sharon is the Studio Coordinator and Artist mentor in this Supported Arts
Studio (situated in Rua Red arts studio) for adults who live with a disability
& people who need additional supports. The studio works with over 100
creative individuals on a weekly basis and has been in existence since 2010.
Saint Aengus Community Action Group
Tutoring a weekly Arts class within this programme for adults living with
addiction and using art as advocacy and a tool for self-expression, Sharon
works closely with each individual, exploring ways in which art can be used as
a channel to best suit the individual’s needs.
The Good Counsel Centre (HSE)
Facilitating a weekly Art session for the adult residents of this HSE
residential care centre, the focus of Sharon's work is on the dignity and value
of the individual, and also with enabling and supporting the individual to find
their own authentic creative channel.
Art Tutor with the Education and Training Board (ETB)
Sharon is employed as an Art Tutor, designing and delivering beginner and
intermediate arts classes for adults attending local family resource centres,
community centres and learning centres. Working through the principles of
community development, using art as a tool and platform in which to address
local and individual issues and to communicate with a wider audience.
H.S.E weekly Arts classes
Sharon works with 2 different groups, Westfield Seniors Art group and Foras Day
centre's Art group on a weekly basis. Exploring Art as a tool to relax, to have
fun, to express oneself and to enjoy. These weekly classes are very popular,
lively and so very creative.
H.S.E Advocacy through the Arts workshops
Sharon works with several groups, using the Arts as a means to build
confidence, to explore issues that directly impact on the individual and to
find ways of addressing these issues and empowering the individuals in
advocating for positive change on their own behalf.
Freelance Community Arts Practice
Having worked with Tallaght Community Arts as an Arts Facilitator and Community
Arts Practitioner since 2002, Sharon has been involved with many Art workshops
and projects with T.C.A within the local community. Sharon also works on short
and long term projects and Art workshops for other organisations. Some of those
more recent engagements are:
Dodder Valley Partnership
"Equality for women programme"
RADE
(Recovery through Art, drama and education)
CUMAS Neilstown
"Grandparents group"
The focus of each group is tailored specifically for the particular group and
it's individual participants needs, requirements and abilities.