Glass and Mosaic artist Elaine Prunty was commissioned by Marymount National school to create an artwork that would “engage and represent the pupils of the school” .
Elaine asked the pupils to tell her about their lives through their self-portraits , their drawings and their written word assignments . Elaine choose a self-portrait to represent each class and replicated that drawing exactly into a life-sized mosaic.
Elaine also had some of the pupils original artwork made into decals and had them fired onto glass tiles. The background details in the 7 and 12 year old portraits include these original artworks and represent their loves and where they live , the 17 supporters seen in the background of the 8 year old portraits are additional self- portraits from the pupils . The speech bubbles are the pupils own words and wishes.
I particularly want to thank the pupils for their fantastic involvement in this project, also thanks to the school committee especially Mary , Mairead and Sean.
I'd also like to thank Julie Voight , Karen Donnellan , Alison Lowry, Brian and Amy Baur and
the most special thanks of all to Joe Fahey .
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