BRONAGH TULLY
UNITS OF LEARNING
Building Connections: School Architecture and Togetherness
This unit explores school architecture and environment through ceramics. It encourages students to create a ceramic mosaic inspired by their school's design, fostering hands-on artistic exploration. This project helps students observe and reinterpret architectural features, enhancing their connection to their surroundings and enriching their education through unique ceramic tile projects.
Hands & Feet: CBA 1
This unit focuses on using hands and feet as expressive elements in lino prints, enabling students to connect their work to a chosen theme. These body parts can represent emotions, movement, identity, and culture, inspiring themes like nature, technology, and personal identity. Students will explore their ideas through drawing, abstraction, and symbolism, creating patterns that tell a story. The final prints will reflect their grasp of composition, symmetry, and rhythm, turning everyday gestures into impactful artworks.
Self & Symbol - A Lino Print Self-Portrait Inspired by Pre-Christian Ireland and Today's World
This unit involves creating a self-portrait lino print that merges personal identity with influences from Pre-Christian Ireland, such as Celtic symbols and mythology. Students will symbolically represent themselves by integrating ancient motifs with contemporary ideas, crafting a visual narrative that reflects their character, values, experiences, and aspirations. By using motifs like spirals for growth and knots for connection, students will explore how these timeless elements relate to modern themes like individuality and environmentalism.
A Feast for the Eyes: Food, Colour and Pattern
This unit examines food's personal and cultural significance, linking it to celebrations and shared experiences. Students will research and draw foods from their lives, focusing on form, composition, and colour. They will create bold motifs through collage experiments, refine these into lino print designs, and explore repeat patterns and colour. The unit concludes with students digitising their motifs for use in a poster, packaging, or textile design, celebrating food as both a visual subject and a symbol of identity.
3D Sculpture & Design The Handheld Tool: Function, Form & Memory
This unit encourages students to explore handheld tools' form, function, and symbolism, examining their cultural and gender associations. Students will reinterpret a chosen tool using textiles and mixed media to create a sculptural response, challenging traditional ideas of power and gender. By altering materials and colours, they transform functional objects into expressive artworks that reflect on identity, memory, and the role of tools in shaping perceptions of self and others.
The Leviathan Project: Sculpture Inspired by the Great Telescope and Birr Castle Gardens
This unit encourages students to explore the link between art, heritage, and science through Birr Castle and its Great Telescope. They will research architectural forms and textures from the castle and gardens, using card construction techniques to create a prototype for a public sculpture. The emphasis is on structure, balance, and visual impact, highlighting how public artworks can connect with place, history, and innovation.
