{"id":9209,"date":"2011-02-22T20:06:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwenstevenson.com\/?p=9209"},"modified":"2026-05-24T20:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T20:17:38","slug":"hands-across-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwenstevenson.com\/zh\/hands-across-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands Across The Border"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Introduction<\/strong><\/p>

Blackwater Regional Partnership commissioned me to deliver a Peace III Cross Border programme and public art piece that aimed to bring communities from the areas of Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough and County Monaghan together concentrating on rural areas along the border.<\/p>

Since the aim of the overall Peace III Cross Border project is to bring people from both sides of the border together through leisure, recreation and arts activities, I delivered this project with a cross-border, cross-community collaboration between me who lives north of the border and another experienced professional artist who lives and works south of the border.<\/p>

Scope Of Work\/Service Proposed<\/strong><\/p>

We delivered a creative arts programme and public art piece working with a group of people with disabilities from Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council area and County Monaghan for the Blackwater Regional Partnership.<\/p>

The community arts workshops were based around the theme of what makes us feel \u2018at home\u2019 and conversely \u2018not at home\u2019. We explored the border-line between these feelings. We used reminiscence activities and objects from our childhood homes to stimulate memory and creative thinking. We worked creatively around the idea that, as adults, somewhere that feels like home evokes familiar memories from our childhoods. We don\u2019t make those same connections with places that do not feel like home.<\/p>

We brought participants from both groups together to further explore these ideas through the process of art making. Many of the memories evoked were familiar to participants across both groups and this will further stimulated sharing of ideas and creative activity.<\/p>

At the end of the programme of workshops, participants had created ceramic tiles that depict ideas of \u2018at home\u2019, \u2018not at home\u2019 and \u2018the border between\u2019.<\/p>

We found that ideas of home were are not constrained by geographical borders, physical abilities, religious differences, or anything else that separates able-bodied people from disabled people both north and south of the border. \u00a0The ceramic tiles were then assembled to create a public art piece on the border between Monaghan and Tyrone,<\/p>

The project was delivered in five phases and launched in April \u201911.<\/p>