Winner of the children's poetry competition, responding to the Assembly: Art in the Bar exhibition by Dragana Jurisic

The falling down castle
Was in a great hassle
His walls kept falling
At first he thought it was very appalling
But then he looked for someone to blame.
The first person was a Dame
Who he called a rude name,
But the Dame was clever and shot him with a bowawow.
She did a good aim.
So he ran off with a man called Mr Milly
Who was very silly
And ran away to the bay.
So the castle went to someone who wasn’t a man or a lady,
It was a cat called Mr Fish
Who always had a nice dish.
After he picked on him, 3 of them had a plan
That would teach him a lesson.
After they told him the lesson
He realised what he had done
And said he would never do it again.

Click here for more details of the exhibition.

As part of our Assembly programme we produce children’s packs relating to the exhibition, which we hope will encourage children to look at and think about art. For each exhibition, we invite children to make a creative response: either a drawing, or a story or poem inspired by one of the works. The winning entry is published on the website and the winner receives a prize selected from The Shop to coincide with each exhibition.

Entry forms will be included in the packs and can be submitted to The Shop. For more information contact the visual arts team on visual.arts@chapter.org or call 029 2031 1050.

Image: Dragana Jurisic, Curious Props All Around As Walls Are Crumbling Down 2006 - 2007 Lambda prints 70 x 100cm. Image courtesy of the artist.