All Transition Year students will attend a workshop in the Visual on Thursday October 26th. The workshop is entitled Self Portrait v Selfie Workshop . LEO and Carlow CoCo are funding the workshop. The workshop will be faciliated by Dragana Jurisic.Originally from Croatia, Dragana Jurisic is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She works predominantly through the medium of photography, text and installation. Her practice explores the issues of gender, stereotyping and the effects of exile and displacement on memory and identity.Dragana Jurisic has won a significant number of awards including Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor Award’s Special Recognition from Duke University, numerous Bursaries and Project Awards. In December 2013, Dragana completed her PhD and finalized a three-year long project 'YU: The Lost Country' that culminated in a critically acclaimed touring exhibition and a book. Her work is in many institutional and private collections. She has exhibited widely both in Ireland and internationally, most recently in The National Gallery as a response to the Vermeer exhibition.