SPINNING YARNS is a one-day Festival celebrating the wonderful world of all things associated with wool & linen where we will showcase the colour, creativity and craft associated with these homespun yarns in all their forms. Highlights include: Market Place with a wide range of traders, both local and from further afield Craft and Gift … Continue reading Spinning Yarns 2021
Intersect presents a collection of sculpture made by Michael Moore since January 2018. It researches mapping of locality. It examines how clay forms interplay and balance, exploring precarious constructions. Grid forms reflect journeys around places of personal importance. Clay forms explore movement and contortion, seeking out unusual, abstracted structures. Michael Moore is Reader in Fine and … Continue reading Michael Moore: Intersect
British Ceramics Biennial returns to Stoke-on-Trent with a vibrant five-week festival of new artist commissions, exhibitions and hands-on events that celebrate the life, character and creativity that ceramics bring to the city. The post-industrial Spode factory site in the heart of Stoke Town will be transformed and animated by the UK’s leading ceramic artists and … Continue reading British Ceramics Biennial
From 15 - 19 September, Handmade Oxford Online will feature some of the UK’s most talented contemporary craft makers. Visitors will be able to browse and shop through an extensive catalogue of handmade products from a wide range of disciplines, including fashion and jewellery, glass and ceramics, prints and textiles, and sculpture and wood. In … Continue reading Handmade Oxford Online
Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied culture is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and every day. For 2021 Culture Night Belfast is centred on Writer’s Square, which will be transformed into a monumental, immersive cultural … Continue reading Culture Night 2021
Exhibition showcasing the award winning Translating Linen project, which features a digital music piece created from the DNA structure of flax overlaid with the sights and sounds of Northern Ireland’s Linen Mills, and a large scale artwork on linen. Visual Artist Robert Peters was invited to respond to Dr. O’Kane’s translation of Linen DNA pictorially. … Continue reading Translating Linen
5 Day course with Green Woodwork Ireland Sat 25th & Sun 26th Sept, Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd Oct, Sat 9th Oct Stephen Ryan will teach you the skills needed to produce your own Hedge Chair, by using an ancient form of woodcraft that was once widespread across the country. Traditional tools and equipment such … Continue reading Make a Hedge Chair
Goldsmiths’ Fair is an annual selling event and exhibition showcasing a curated selection of work by some of the best fine jewellers and contemporary silversmiths creating and making in the UK today. It is widely regarded as an essential stop in the international fine jewellery and contemporary silver events calendar. The Fair has taken place … Continue reading Goldsmiths’ Fair 2021
Bounce Arts Festival is presented annually by University of Atypical to celebrate and showcase art created by d/Deaf, disabled and Neurodiverse creatives across the region. On 1 to 3 October 2021, the programme brings together a dynamic mix of performance, workshops, music, dance, visual arts and lots of fun. Now in its ninth year, it … Continue reading Bounce Arts Festival
Learn how to make your own beautiful Macramé Wall Hanging with Claire from NodoKnots. This class is perfect for beginners. If you have never tried Macramé before it will help you master the basic knots, and create a stylish wall hanging. The class includes all the materials you will need to complete the project, and … Continue reading Macramé Wall Hanging Workshop
As part of her exhibition, Thinking Out Loud, Patricia Kelly will be facilitating this workshop where participants will explore line in the landscape. You will use selected images to create textural pieces using both hand and machine stitched techniques. You will be introduced to the technique of free machining. Suitable for all levels, but experience of using … Continue reading Exploring Line in the Landscape
Mourne Creative has teamed up with the National Grand Cafe bar for a Crafting afternoon in the eclectic Cathedral Quarter Belfast to bring you not one not two but THREE different workshops in Pottery Macrame and Lampshade design all under the ONE tent Its a great way to catch up with friends and to get … Continue reading Crafting in the Tent