Being creative

Being creative is vital for any art project. Creativity is very hard to define, but put simply it is about making unusual connections and using these connections to create something unique and valuable. Putting effort into your research is important to generate lots of ideas and help you to make these connections. To see things in different ways you must first learn how to look. The examples here are from a past pupil of St. Mel's artroom, Aaron Canning. He has just started second year in the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) studying Visual Communications. These pictures are from his exhibition at the end of his first Core year. What you don't see here is the process, large amounts of research that led to these finished pieces.

Click on the images to see them larger. The finished pieces combined image and text with words illustrating the interior of a video recorder, visually documenting the connections between the pieces that allow the whole lot to work together.