Resources

The resources section provides provides essential background knowledge to contemporary craft practice in Northern Ireland, the rest of the UK and Ireland and further afield. 

In this section we have also included ‘signposts’ to key opportunities and resources. The information should be useful to individuals and organisations working in the contemporary craft sector as well as those involved in its development and support.

Catherine Keenan: Glass Artist

Critical Writing



“Although a relatively young glass artist Catherine Keenan’s work demonstrates this desire to bridge both contemporary ideas of conceptualism in art practice whilst developing her technical skills as deeply and as widely as possible”. Dr. Joseph McBrinn, July/Aug 2010

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• Directory of Craft Fairs and Trade Events

  

  Craft NI has commissioned a comprehensive directory of craft fairs, retail exhibitions and trade events in GB as well as a list of international events.

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• Touring Exhibitions Group

  Signpost

  Touring Exhibitions Group (TEG) is the professional group in the UK concerned with all aspects of organising and touring exhibitions.

• Rural Craft Development

  Publications
  

  This document highlights craft’s potential for economic growth, diversification, communities, employment, creativity and tourism in rural areas.

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• A Guide to Creative Innovation

  Practical Guides
  

  This guide and its companion, A Guide to Business Development, have been published to support craft businesses and designer-makers in Northern Ireland.

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• A Guide to Business Development

  Practical Guides
  

  This guide and its companion, A Guide to Creative Innovation, have been published to support craft businesses and designer-makers in Northern Ireland.

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• Jill Phillips: Furniture & Textile Designer

  Critical Writing

  In the late autumn and early winter of 2009 Craft Northern Ireland played host to ‘Different Buses: An exhibition of textiles by Jill Phillips’ (10 September to 10 November 2009). As a designer Phillips is best known as a creator of bespoke, exquisite furniture and textiles which are always conceptually as much as technically interesting.

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• Making It Programme

  Critical Writing

  MAKING IT is a business start-up, or ‘business incubation’, program for emerging craft makers. It was established by Craft Northern Ireland in conjunction with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland.

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• Blick Shared Studios

  Signpost

  BLICK is a new hub dedicated to supporting and showcasing emerging talent in craft, design and photography. The shared studio and event space bring together creative professionals from a variety of backgrounds through collaborative projects and events, offering the opportunity for emerging creative talent to represent, promote and showcase their work.

• Studio 23

  Signpost

  Studio 23 in Belfast has a third unit of newly refurbished studios which are available to rent short and long term. Studios have 24/7 access, parking, media suite, and darkroom and kiln facilities, and are suitable for designers, craftspeople, fine artists and printmakers.

• An Artist’s Business Guide

  Signpost

  Online Resource for Artists. The aim of the blog is to provide a platform for some thoughts and one strategy on how to build and grow a business as an artist.

• Making it in the 21st century

  Research

  ‘Making it in the 21st century’ presents some interesting regional findings which bear relevance to the crafts sector in Northern Ireland. For example, based on a body of research, the report makes a number of estimates that some 32,000 makers generate a turnover for England and Wales for 2003 of £826 million, which is greater than the fishing division, the forestry and logging division, the manufacture of motorcycles and bicycles or the manufacture of sports goods.

• ThinkTank: The Future Designer

  Research

  The first in a series of Thinktanks addressing the futur of design, audiences, objects and museums. In 2008 the V&A launched a series of ThinkTanks on future-facing issues related to contemporary design and museum spaces.

• The Crafts Council (England)

  Research

  The Research & Information Team of the Crafts Council (England) commissions and publishes research on the impact and value of the crafts.

• Visual Artists Ireland: INFO~POOL

  Research

  The ‘Legal and Technical Guides’ section of info~pool provides everything an artist might need to know on the more technical and legal issues affecting their profession.

• New Child Protection Guidelines

  Research

  The Volunteer Development Agency has been supported through a Lottery Business Support Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to develop best practice child protection guidelines for arts sector organisations to support the development and implementation of policies.

• A Future in the Making - Socio-economic Survey

  Research

  Craft NI’s Socio-economic survey & Advocacy document for the craft sector in Norther Ireland. Socio-economic survey of the craft sector in Northern Ireland, 2006 Advocacy document for the craft sector in Northern Ireland, 2007

• About: Design and technology

  Publications

  by Peter Davies, Pera International | Peter Davies discusses the value of technology for business and design.

• Craft Galleries Guide 2006

  Signpost

  The eighth edition features a comprehensive listing of applied arts from galleries in England and featured International galleries.

• Second steps: Craft business guide

  Signpost

  A Guide to setting up a business in the craft world. | Compiled and edited by Caroline Mornement.

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