News: Trinity House and Create

Visual Artists Expressions of Interest, Trinity House and Create

Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, on behalf of the Irish Youth Justice Service and Trinity House School would like to receive expressions of interest from visual artists to work collaboratively with the residents of Trinity House School. All artists will be supported throughout the residency by a key worker at Trinity House.

The fee for the project is 2,000 Euros plus 500.00 Euros materials budget.

A panel of peer artists and representatives of Trinity House and the Irish Youth Justice Service will oversee the decision making process.

A total of 3 artists will be appointed. All artists will be expected to work in residence for a period of 6 weeks (2 hours per week), commencing February 25th. Artists can select to work these hours in the evening or on Saturdays

There will be opportunities for the three appointed artists to share practice in a supported process led by Create.

Context

Trinity House School, Oberstown, Lusk, Co. Dublin, is one of 4 children detention schools which are the responsibility of the Irish Youth Justice Service. Trinity House is the most secure unit of the 4 schools and provides detention places for boys aged between 12 and 16 years of age, remanded or committed by the courts. Committals range from 3 months to 2 years, with the average length of stay being between 9 and 12 months.

The school has a capacity to accommodate 24 boys, with an additional 3 places available in the school’s stepdown facility. Trinity House is designed as 3 house units, each of which can accommodate 8 boys. Each unit incorporates bedrooms, living space, kitchens, staff rooms and outdoor secure recreation areas. The school's ethos, as with the other detention schools, is one of individualised care, education/training and rehabilitation for each child.

Trinity House also incorporates an education facility with a range of classrooms and workshops where the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee provides individual programmes of education in small class groups for a range of abilities.

To respond to this opportunity please send CV and examples of previous collaborative arts projects to Director at Create, 10/11 Earl Street South, Dublin 8 (please include a SAE for return of examples)

Deadline is Monday February 11 at 5pm