Transition Year Art Collaboration
A group of Transition Year students, namely Jessica Madden, Keeva Duffy, Maria Quinn, Cerys Porter, Shauna Fahy and Sean Power, have reached out to Portumna workhouse. As a group they designed and painted a series of boards for the workhouse infirmary. Here are their own words about the project. "We got inspiration mainly from what life would be like if you lived in a workhouse. The boards consist of four scenes which are now in the places where the original infirmary doors and windows were missing. A family entering the workhouse The paintings tell the story of a person's life in the workhouse, from our own perspective. We decided to have a main focus throughout the works; a man in red. He became our main character in the story. The first board shows him entering the workhouse with his family. We tried to depict the fact that the family had no other option if they wanted a chance of survival. Seperation scen...