A new programme between Kids' Own and the Butler Gallery to create a unique publication by children that we enable everyone to understand art more.
Kids' Own will be working with a core group of 12 children. The children have a long relationship with the Butler Gallery through their Solas programme.
Over the coming months Kids' Own will be meeting with the children and interviewing artists that are exhibiting at the Butler Gallery and also interviewing artists that are in the Butler Gallery collection. The aim of this work will be to gather up content and think about art and its meaning in our lives. After all the thinking and questioning we will work together to design an innovative new book that will be the first guide by children on professional arts practice, enabling others to question and to make sense of this work and meaning in their lives.

The first exhibition, The Morphology of the other, by artist Aideen Barry, was a fantastic beginning, Aideen is a multimedia artist. The show covered many different explorations about future and doom, Aideen's creative process starts with drawing and develops on through sculpture, video and performance. The children created their own small books at the start of the weekend to capture their thinking and thoughts throughout.

A very exciting beginning!