Young people urged to show their art

THE third annual Young People’s Art Exhibition gets underway at Scariff Library on Thursday and will continue until October 1.
“It’s the third year it’s been running and it’s open to anyone who is 21 years of age or younger than that. It gives young people a platform to show their work and it shows the wider public what art actually means to young people,” says Natalie El Baba, who has organised it.
“Before the first one I had been running kids classes and we got the use of the gallery that used to be in the Snug restaurant in Mountshannon. Then the next time I booked into the library. It was really great last year, fantastic. There were about 80 pieces of work,” she added.
Natalie said in 2010 there were many pieces of art in a variety of forms.
“There was a real mixture. There were quite a few paintings on canvas, there were sketch books, there were drawings, there were etchings on perspex and there were three films. We had thins like sculpture and woodcrafting, there was poetry and photography.”
When she spoke to The Clare Champion last week, Natalie was still unsure what will be on show this year but she was confident a good number of young artists will take part.
“We’ve got two local guys who are really into graffiti street art and they’re going to do a big eight foot by eight foot piece. We’ve got some photography and people are contacting me about it. Usually the schools get involved but there hasn’t been a huge amount of time for that this year but I think there will still be a good bit in it in the end,”  she concluded.