Art Gene offers a wide and stimulating series of education workshops as part of our artistic programme.

Residency and exhibiting artists alike, undertake practical workshops reflecting their own practice.  Attendees are offered the opportunity to see and work through the thinking and making processes our artists use; workshops culminate in attendees creating their own artwork from these processes.  Focusing each workshop on the lead artists practice enables the education programme to deliver workshops reflecting a variety of media including design, drawing, making, photography and video.

Each workshop is unique and, artists are assisted by Art Gene staff in the planning stages as well as the delivery of the workshops. Our (inter)national programme ensures each workshop delivers more than an artistic outcome; offering opportunities, which are few in this region, to engage with language and culture from every corner of the world. 

During the past five years Art Gene’s educational programme has delivered workshops with artists from Canada, Columbia, Finland, Japan and the U K.  Our wide ranging programme and accessible gallery and studio spaces allow the educational programme to be open to people of all ages from infant, junior, secondary and special needs School’s, further and higher education colleges to community youth and adult groups.

Art Gene’s educational programme offers the opportunity to gain understanding of contemporary art by engaging with practicing artists who are working or exhibiting at Art Gene, facilitating debate and discussion with individual Artists on the relevance of their work. Attendees are encouraged to look at the thought processes behind conceptual art work.

The workshops help to build confidence through engagement with the artists practice helping build understanding and creativity.  Photographic evidence and evaluation of each workshop, supports the importance of the workshop opportunities Art Gene offers.