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 Martin Dooney Martin is a community artist, collaborator and facilitator with six years experience in this area. While studying Fine Art (Sculpture) at the National College of Art & Design, he was introduced to the idea of working with communtiy groups and began in the Coolmine Rehabilitaion Clinic on various art projects. It was here that he realised the importance of creativity in a person's life and how our society tends not to promote creative investigation, experimentation and trial and error. The group were given this opportunity through visual art and responded with work that offered them clarity, empowerment, healing and an overall sense of achievement. Since then Martin has worked with groups of all ages and from a wide range of backgrounds on a variety of visual art projects. He has carried out activities with adults and children alike on festivals, exhibitions, workshops, in schools, afterschools clubs, summer projects in Dublin City Council, intercultural centres, homeless agencies, day care centres for the elderly, and many more. Having seen the benefit of visual art in people's lives, he continues to further understand this and is currently carrying out a course in counselling and psychotherapy which is helping to inform his work and improve his service to the communities he works with. Bringing the many skills and techniques learned over the years, he has found sharing them and empowering others to be an inexhaustible pleasure and something he becomes more passionate about as time goes on.
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