Youth collaboration results in Double Vision!

Members of Dunclug Youth Forum travelled earlier this month to The Model in Sligo to attend its launch which attracted a handsome turnout, predominantly made up of young people who relished the visual displays and diverse sounds of Double Vision.

Their exciting exhibition will also be coming to The Mid-Antrim Museum at The Braid in September.

Supported by International Fund for Ireland, this Young Curators project has been taking place at The Model and at The Mid-Antrim Museum at The Braid over the last two years.

This adventurous project challenged the young people to draw on artifacts and artworks from two significant but very different public collections; The Niland Collection, one of Ireland’s most important holdings of 20th century art, and the social history collection of The Mid-Antrim Museum at The Braid, to creatively experiment and curate their own exhibition. Double Vision is the exciting product of this partnership.

The young people decided, not only what works to include in the exhibition, but also the way the pieces are displayed, the design of the exhibition, the audio, video trailer and everything else that is needed to bring an exhibition of this magnitude together.

The choice of objects and the design of the exhibition enabled the groups to present new thoughts about these objects and their relationship to the world and the exhibition has created a host of new connections, which range from the purely visual, to ideas about history, culture, identity and society.

Over the two years the groups have worked with staff at The Mid-Antrim Museum and The Model to become familiar with both collections and at the end of the entire process, the Young Curators have experienced working with collections and understanding the role of a curator as well as developing their critical thinking and visual literacy.