Play Testers Needed! with Chris Finnegan

Artist Chris Finnegan invites early years children and their big people to join him in testing an interactive play installation that he has been developing as part of his residency at Triskel.

Play This Way will transform the Triskel Sample Project Space into a sculptural playscape; inviting young children to build, hide, pretend and create and has been developed through Chris’ research into child-led pedagogies as well as loose parts play theory.

This is an opportunity for young ones to get a behind-the-scenes look at this work in progress, exploring and testing the environment before it goes live to the general public at the start of June.

Although these sessions will be facilitated by Chris, alongside a qualified Montessori director, guardians are asked to stay and play with their little ones throughout the session.

Chris would like to document the environment and materials as they are used but no photos will be taken of your child.

Chris offers two options: one at 12:00 for 1-3 year olds and one at 13:15 for 4-6 year olds.

About the Artist
Chris Finnegan is a visual artist from Cork City working across photography, sculpture, and participatory practice. Working with young people and adults in different settings, Chris’ practice sees him continuously developing methodologies for collaboration at the intersection of play and art making. Chris has over 10 years’ experience as a secondary school Art and Photography Teacher in the UK and Ireland. He is a dad of 3 young boys.

Triskel Sample Project Space is a new partnership between Triskel and Sample-Studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artists, especially emerging and mid-career artists, to test ideas and to develop new work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career development and audience engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf’ where they have a safe space to develop new ideas, within which risk-taking is possible.