Take A Seat
Participatory art-based research project on somatic memory & childhood
Were we ever that small?
Everybody who has been through schooling in Ireland will remember these chairs.
We spent our formative years cradled by them, or not, for hours each day.
Unless in the teaching profession, we rarely encounter these chairs again.
Visitors to my studio, provided with materials of creation and destruction, are invited to interact with the chairs; adding and removing, arranging and collating as they feel so moved to do.
“Circle Time” arrangement of Take A Seat - Méabh ní Chadhla
I’m asking participants to provide me with feedback
Feedback is welcome in any form - a few words, a photograph, or simply the traces left in their engagement with the work.
This evolving collection seeks to illuminate and honour a shared yet often overlooked experience.
Exhibited at:
Small Things Like These, 2023 - 2024, LHQ Gallery, County Hall, Cork.
Ab, 2024, St. Peter’s, Cork.