Exploring Form & Colour in Hot Glass Workshop, Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd April
Course Fees: €240 (two days) - 10am to 5pm
Participants: 6
Experience: No experience required

Develop your own ideas in glass with the guidance of glass artists Graham Reid and Louise Rice.  The class will investigate a variety of colour techniques  and experiment with mould-blowing into plaster and metal moulds. For artists with some experience of hot glass and/or mouldmaking.

Louise Rice is based at the Sculpture Centre  in Manorhamilton and  studied glass at Edinburgh College of Art and the Rietveld Acadamie in Amsterdam. Rice has work in Ulster Museum, and  National Glass Museum, Netherlands.

Graham Reid received a Bachelors degree in Sculptural Glass from Massachusetts College Of Art. He built Knockbeg Studios where he taught glassblowing, and now works as sculptor in glass, wood and metal from his Studio in Sligo.

Sand Casting with Hot Glass Workshop, Mon 4th & Tue 5th April
Trainer: Keith Seybert
Course Fees: €240  (two days) - 10am to 5pm
Participants: 6
Experience: No experience required

This one-day course will introduce you to the potential of molten glass as a creative material through the process of “Hot” casting into sand moulds. You will have the opportunity to ladle glass straight from the furnace and pour right into prepared “open faced” sand moulds using found and sculpted objects. This is the most direct method to create your own solid sculptural forms in glass. No previous glass working experience required and all materials are provided. Feel free to bring in your own objects to press in the sand.

Keith Alan Seybert received masters’ degrees in Sculpture, and Glass and Ceramics from Washington University, St. Louis in 1987 and 1995. He has led numerous workshops in a variety of glass and sculpture techniques in the US, Europe and beyond. From 1999 to 2001 he was a Senior Researcher at the Royal College of Art, London, where he headed an in-depth examination of investment type refractory moulds for casting glass and bronze; a topic he has lectured on at many international venues including 2002 and 2009 at the annual conference of the Glass Art Society. He currently lives in Ireland and works in his Blarney studio.