Art, Craft & Design Students Visit Backwater 20-10

Students of CSN's Art, Craft & Design course took some precious time between interviews and classes to visit BACKWATER 20-10 at The Crawford Gallery, Emmett Place.

With prepared worksheets in hand, the students walked the 3 floors of the exhibition looking at innovative exhibition design, the variety of work on view, film/video installations and interactive features as well as the concept of "curatorship" in exhibitions.

Students were invigorated by a trip off-site and returned from the day with renewed energy to go into the last months of their portfolio preparation course. Many students have received their points back from CCAD, are travelling to LSAD for interview, DIT, Glasgow School of Art, Dun Laoghire College of Art, Galway School of Art and others have applied for Level 6 courses internally at CSN.


For information on the Art, Craft and Design course, contact Course Director Lucy Phelan at l.phelan@csn.ie or (021) 4961020.

The annual CSN exhibition of art and design will open to the public Thursday 27th May at 7 PM, "Beautiful Proof". Watch this space for updates.

Imprints of Shandon - LLL Festival - Access with Design

Inspiration comes from a series of visits to a specific place. Research follows - allowing students to process information, create sketchbook entries and here bring to the Access with Design course 1st year students -inspired images in both print and stitch of the glorious views of Shandon in Cork.

Architecture, cobbled streets, the Shandon bells, the famous "Goldie Fish", plus the divergent people and the colour of life give impetus to the creative process.

Nancy Falvey, of Ballyphehane, will officially open this in-house display of student work, to the Lifelong Learning Festival audience, on Tuesday morning, 23rd March, 10 AM on the ground floor foyer at CSN.

For further information on the Access with Design course, contact: Jenny Monks at www.csn.ie Ph.(021) 4961020. Early interviews will take place 25th March, applications by Internet on the college website, as above.

Primetime, (No.s 8&9 Washington Street, Cork), is currently running a great competition for a chance to have your very own graphic printed on a skateboard.
Using a skate deck as your canvas, they asked for people to create an image or design celebrating the diversity and independence of skating and graffiti culture and its interaction with the surrounding environment.

Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa BTEC Multimedia student Oliver Keane's design has made it to the final six selected. His design, incorporating Cork’s Shandon steeple, has been printed on a skate deck and is currently on display in the shop. The overall winner will be decided by a public vote. Call into the shop to see the designs and cast your vote.