Excitedly Resting by Órla Kelly

Name: Excitedly Resting by Órla Kelly
Start: 2026-09-16T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-09-18T10:30:00+01:00
Location: Draíocht Blanchardstown

What to expect

Explore this new work by Órla Kelly that investigates how tactile materials, texture, and sensory experiences can create meaningful encounters with art for autistic young people, sensory seekers, and their families.

Through playful textiles, carefully chosen materials, and a considered environment, this mini exhibition invites visitors to engage with the work through their own curiosity, imagination, and sensory discovery at their own pace.

Supported by Fingal Arts Office through the Exploring and Thinking Bursary.

Booking Notes:
Created especially for Primary School ASD Units
Capacity: 12 children per session
Enquiries to Sarah Beirne, [email protected]

Órla Kelly is a visual artist, creative educationalist and arts manager with a specific practice that focuses on working with and for early years children, aiming to stimulate and support the naturally creative, poetic, philosophical and curious intelligences of the young child. She is the founder and director of Early Childhood Creativity, an initiative that promotes creative thinking and activity in early years children and their parents, and supports artists and educationalists to develop specific and creative ways of working with early years children (0-6 years).