About THE MOSAICS






Glass and Mosaic artist Elaine Prunty was commissioned by Marymount National school  to create an artwork that would “engage and represent the pupils of the school” . 

Elaine asked the pupils to tell her about their lives through their self-portraits , their drawings and their written word assignments . Elaine choose a self-portrait to represent each class and replicated that drawing exactly  into a life-sized mosaic. 
Elaine also had some of the pupils original artwork made into decals and had them fired onto glass tiles. The background details in the 7 and 12 year old portraits   include these   original artworks and represent their loves and where they live ,  the  17 supporters seen in the background of   the 8 year old portraits are additional  self- portraits from the pupils .  The speech bubbles are the pupils own words and wishes.  


I particularly want to thank the pupils for their fantastic involvement in this project, also thanks to the school committee especially Mary , Mairead and Sean. 

I'd also like to thank Julie Voight , Karen Donnellan , Alison Lowry, Brian and Amy Baur  and 
the most special thanks of all to Joe Fahey .