Colin McGookin
About Colin
Colin McGookin is a visual artist based in Belfast. He is the Arts Care artist in residence for The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust and a facilitator for the Creative Youth Partnerships. A detailed biography and extensive selection of his art and workshop work is available on his website.
During school year 2006/2007 Colin will be collaborating with Devenish College Enniskillen students from class 9SC, with head of art Myrtle Dennis, head of music Laurence Connolly and head of physical education Seamus McCusker as part of this Kids’ Own Voices project. The project will culminate in an exhibition at the Clinton Centre Enniskillen in May 2007.
Journal Entries
Fav Pics from the year in Devenish
May 8th, 2007Exhibition Clinton Centre
May 4th, 2007Anna, Orla and myself spent the last 2 days assembling and displaying the final exhibition at the Clinton Centre in Enniskillen. We selected work from our schools and then displayed it in the main gallery along with digital projections of documentation and animations made with the students. The exhibition looks tremendous and we are looking [...]
Week 18 On Strandhill Beach
April 19th, 2007Today we had our most fun day yet with lots of creativity mixed in to make it even better. Both colleges got together on Strandhill beach for warm up games then a sand castle building competition. It was great fun and we used stones driftwood and seaweed to decorate our buildings. Later we went back [...]
Week 17-Reflections on the Project
March 30th, 2007Gavin says it has been fun, Nadine say’s it really good crack and we go on trip’s lol!, Jessica say’s we have made lots of things that we have never made before it is really good fun, Matthew says it was exciting and fun to do this project with Colin McGookin. Stacey says..it is good [...]
Week 16
March 23rd, 2007In music we recorded more keyboard performances and a violin piece. Orla dropped in and talked to the class about the project and the forthcoming exhibition. We planned a photoshoot for next week and in art tried to finish all our masks and accessories. We made good progress and are looking forward to trying everything [...]
Week 15
March 2nd, 2007A very busy week. In art we looked at our website and saw the pics from last week and read the Mercy College developments. We then set about adding to our masks and accessories and took a lot of pictures to help keep everyone informed. Mathew finished of a red devil mask and a rocket [...]
Week 14
February 26th, 2007We discussed last weeks session at the Clinton Centre and everyone agreed they really enjoyed the day and look forward to meeting again at the Model Arts Centre. In art we got back into our mask making and some students put on their finishing touches whilst others continued developing their ideas. Those who finished their [...]
Week 13
February 15th, 2007On St Valentines Day, we all met up for the first time in the Clinton Arts Centre in Enniskillen. The Devenish group arrived first and took the opportunity to watch the Mercy College video diary. It was fun with lots of pop music and showed us many similarities with our school. When the Mercy group [...]
Week 12
February 11th, 2007This week we did more work on our masks and processed more pictures of our work to date. I got more of my own painting done and saw the first snow of this winter. We also began to prepare for next weeks session in the Clinton Centre. This will be very exciting as all the [...]
Week 11
February 4th, 2007The pupils had all worked on their profiles during the week to help take their masks further. A few who were absent last week played catch up and the rest developed their masks by adding sculptural features and starting to paint them. We have a lot of Red Devils, an Orc, a Magician, a Cat, [...]