Welcome !

This website presents a rare opportunity to explore artists ideas, thought processes and methods, captured in their notebooks, which they have kindly donated for you to see.

 

The Kildare Artist Notebook project was established by Kildare County Council Arts Service in 2011. Artists in all genres and at all stages of their career were invited to take an A5 moleskine notebook, to use it as they wished and to return it, to become part of a permanent touring collection.

 

To date, over 150 artists from around the world have donated notebooks – sometimes reluctantly as notebooks are often very personal and private. However, seeing the notebooks displayed collectively allows participants to experience how an individual thing becomes greater in the shared experience.

 

The collection of notebooks has been exhibited annually in Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, as part of the Kildare Readers Festival and has toured to Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth and Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

 

The Kildare Artist Notebook project website was launched in the Library, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co Kildare on Thursday 10th April 2014.

 

The notebooks were photographed by John Blake, who also developed the website.

 

Want to get involved ? Find out how HERE