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Type: Critical Writing

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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• Jill Phillips: Furniture & Textile Designer

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  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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• Alison Fitzgerald: basket weaving

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  Alison Fitzgerald’s baskets are both innovate and traditional. The oval forms of her potato baskets also echo those that were made in considerable volume near Lough Neagh up until the 1930s, yet the understated gradations of colour and the use of the different types of willow to emphasise the ribbing within the pieces, give them an expensive subtlety.

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