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Art Sculpture

Heiwa (Peace) is the art sculpture that was brought to life by TY pupils
in conjunction with Creative Engagement, NAPD. It has placed on the
school grounds. A Core group that consisted of the Transition Year
(2014-2015) were put into place to help our art teacher Miss Burns and
our local artist Joe Mallon to complete an exquisite sculpture.
Our platform for the sculpture was based around the diversity of
cultures in our school; Irish, English, Welsh, Filipino, Japanese, German,
Lithuanian, Nigerian, Dutch, Egyptian, Spanish, Canadian, Malaysian,
Russian, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian and many more. Two Japanese
pupils were directly involved in the Core group.

After many classes brainstorming and constructing practice models
we decided on the final piece; a simple yet minimalistic style sculpture
to present to the school, we decided on the idea of the crane sculpture.
The two Japanese students showed us how to make cranes out of craft
paper in a double class and here was the start of the innovative process
to achieve the final model.
Despite the fact that we had a TY core group, every Transition year
pupil played a vital role as each wing and body of the crane was
decoratively assembled by hand made porcelain pieces which were
uniquely, individually and intricately designed by each TY pupil,
producing a magnificent sculpture.
After it was finalised and fixed into place the Minister for Arts, Heritage
and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD visited our school and
unveiled our Peace Sculpture.

The ceremony was around an hour long held at the front of our
school where the sculpture was allocated. Here a podium was set
up with microphones and big speakers at each end of the school
steps and in front of us was a local camera crew that would film the
momentous moment.

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