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THE creativity of hundreds of Ennis school children, helped along the way by local artist Evelyn Sorohan and the Ennis Men’s Shed, is being celebrated in a new exhibition which has been launched at Clare Museum. “Plastic Nature!” opened last Thursday at the Ennis based museum featuring large scale artworks made by the pupils of Ennis National School. The art installations, which were inspired by the county’s wildlife, have been created using old plastic toys and jewellery which otherwise would have been thrown away. Local environmental artist Evelyn, is a Creative Associate with Ennis National School as part of the Creative Schools initiative that supports schools to put the arts and creativity at the heart of children’s and young people’s lives. She described working with the 700 children at Ennis National School on this Creative School programme as a “pleasure” adding their art installations are “brilliant”. Evelyn is urging the public to come along and see the sustainable art which …
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