Cobh Regeneration

Project Partner:
Marie Brett, Sirius Arts Centre, Park Road Day Care Centre, Health Service Executive South

Project Description:
In line with one of Sirius Arts Centre’s objectives to celebrate Cobh through art, this project marked the beginning of what the Centre hopes will be a longer-term community arts initiative which will celebrate the area. Using the theme of The Regeneration of Cobh/Health and Revitalisation, the project aimed to collaboratively develop a body of work for exhibition. Building on work previously undertaken by Sirius Arts Centre with a women’s art group, the project aimed to develop their skills and facilitate the training necessary for them to deliver a visual arts project in a healthcare setting.

The group collectively devised and implemented a creative arts project, working with older people attending the Park Road Day Care centre in Cobh. Visual media was used to explore a theme of health and revitalisation/regeneration. A series of 5 large canvases, painted and collaged, were created by participants and displayed at the centre and subsequently exhibited at Cobh’s Post Office.

The project sought to establish models of good practice not only in the planning and implementation but also the evaluation of such a project with a view to the women’s group involvement in facilitating community based art projects with Sirius Arts Centre in the future.

Credit Ger McCarthy