This time out out on This is Art Club! Shane and Holly are all about The Body.
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Check out the video above where our reporter Susie travels to the RHA School to take part in her first ever nude life drawing class where she learns some top tips for drawing the human body.
In Sligo, Art Club reporter Shauna catches up with animator Fergal Brennan to hear about the thousands of images used create a new music video for recording artist Wallis Bird. In Cork, Caoimhe has a go being an artists apprentice for a day at a female run tattoo parlour and discovers how ink is used to create elaborate forms of body art.
In the Studio, performance artist and This Is Art! 2023 jury member Amanda Coogan workshops a piece of performance art with three young dancers to create an artwork inspired by Irish Sign Language and their body movements.
Art Club members from Maryfield College team up with TAA (Textile, Art & Artifact) students from NCAD to make a homemade loom for French knitting and experiment with recycled fabrics to create their own unique designs.
Ross Carvill and his gang of young artists make their own "exquisite corpse" drawing, a famous parlour game where players draw different body segments on folded paper.
And, we travel to Lismore Castle Arts in west Waterford where students from Blackwater Community School report on the "Girls Girls Girls" Exhibition and learn more about the idea of the female gaze.
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The show also asked young artists to enter This Is Art! 2023. The competition is closed for entries and the winners will be announced as part of Cruinniú na nÓg on 10 June.
