ARTifice 2025

Lismore Castle Arts

07 Mar - 08 Mar, 2025

07 Mar - 08 Mar, 2025

Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford

11:00am – 1:00pm

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Lismore Castle Arts is delighted to announce the opening our ARTifice exhibition featuring work from pupils of Ard Scoil na Mara, Tramore, Blackwater Community School, Lismore, CBS Dungarvan, Newtown School, Waterford, St. Augustine's College Dungarvan and St. Declan's Community College, Kilmacthomas.

ARTifice is an innovative art project for secondary schools run by Lismore Castle Arts since 2009, supported by Waterford City and County Council Arts Office. Our learning team has worked closely with teachers and students to create a learning environment inspired by our exhibition programme.

ARTifice 2025 presents students’ artworks which explore links to manmade and natural objects inspired by the exhibition “Kunstkammer” curated by Robert O’Byrne which relates to the theme of a “Cabinet of Curiosities”.

St. Declan's Community School, Kilmacthomas

Excavating the Ordinary
Collaborative piece

Our work explores the intersection of nature and human intervention, inspired by the idea of a Kunstkammer - a collection of curiosities that invite wonder and discovery. Using plaster casts of both natural and manmade objects, we have captured the textures and forms of our surroundings, preserving them like archaeological fragments of the present.

By emphasizing these impressions with Indian ink, we reveal hidden details - cracks, patterns, and traces of time - echoing the way history leaves its mark on objects and landscapes.

The arrangement encourages viewers to engage with the piece as an evolving excavation, where each discovery builds a deeper narrative of connection, curiosity, and change.

The muted tones were deliberately chosen to reflect the quiet beauty of forgotten artifacts, allowing the forms themselves to speak. In placing our work within the space of the Cabinet of Curiosity, we invite audiences to reconsider the ordinary as extraordinary—to see the world as a continuous process of collection, transformation, and rediscovery.

Blackwater Community School, Lismore

"Writhe"
Millie Mai O'Donovan

"Scab"
Millie Mai O'Donovan

"Memories"
Abi Moroney

Ard Scoil na Mara, Tramore

left: "Clay Eye"
Connor Cleary

centre: "Entrance Stone"
Cian Ó Cadhla

right: "Treasure Chest with Tentacles and Starfish"
Rachel Weldon

left: "Warped Grandfather Clock"
Oscar Flanagan

centre: "Clay Head"
Michael Barry

right: "Broken Arming Sword"
Daniel Foley

left: "Toilet"
Oisín Lodge


centre: "Pink Pony Colloseum"
Grace Balfe

right: "Landscape"
J.J. Corkery

left: "Mermaid 1"
Aine O Toole


right: "Mermaid 2"
Aine O Toole

left: "The Octopus"
Caoimhe Ó Byrne
Eve Burton


centre: "Blackberry on a Raft"
Eppie O Meara
Camille Mc Loughlin


right: "Watercolour Painting of Trees, Moons and Sky"
Tara Carton

left "Goblin Head"
Evie Flynn

right: "Clay Eyeball with Eye Tentacles"
Scott Murray

CBS Dungarvan

left: "The Horrors of the Body"
Jake Kiely

right: ""Fetch" Gone Wrong!"
James Hickey

Newtown School Waterford

"Seasonal Styles"
Daisy O'Connell
Ella Griffin
Georgia Breen
Lucia Johnston
Tara Mullally

left: "Flowers Season"
Alejandra Galdon
Celia Arruga


centre: "Sunny Flower Mosaic"
Naja Duggan
Hannah David
Tam Roche
Lucy Lawlor

right: "Flower Failure"
Annik Sommer
Lyra Tilbury

left: "Whale Shark"
Annik Sommer
Lyra Tilbury

centre: "Think Outside the Box"
Joseph Cathcart
Michael Slattery


right: "Infinicard"
Adam Shine
David Cafery
Dylan Walsh
Elias David

left: "Curious Cats"
James Evans

right: "Cabinet of Curiosity"
Toby Lee

Untitled

Seren Wright

St. Augustine's College, Dungarvan

left: "Converse Girl"
Jumana Abusweilein

centre: "Childhood Shores"
Cian Lacey

right: "Aftermath"
Orla McNamara

left: "Monster in a Balloon"
Hassan Abusweileim

centre: "Ringo Starr"
Nera Vukovic Radanovic

right: "Strings and Sips"
Ben Holland

left: "Disconnected"
Sophie Clek

centre: "Pearls"
Sarah Foley

right: "Porcelain and Pawprints"
Aisling Condon

"Pulled by the Patriarchy"
Kyle Tutty

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Lismore Castle Arts
Open Daily
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10:30am – 5:30pm (last entry 4:30pm)
14 March – 26 October

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